Word: governorships
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...Second biggest job" (elective job, TIME meant) is the governorship of the first State, New York. "Third biggest," the mayoralty of the first city...
...scene of his romance is the Caribbean Sea, the time soon after the death of England's second Charles. At this period pirates and buccaneers, having buried their pots of gold, were beginning to bury themselves. Even a respectable pirate like Henry Morgan had been retired to the governorship of Jamaica, bribed with a knighthood, pending his extermination of what few old buccaneer friends of his still carried on. Most reprobate, most elusive was Morgan's old associate Tom Leach. His bad ship Black Swan was rarely sighted, then only to the sighting crew's short-lived...
Governor King of Louisiana went up to Richmond, Va., last week to a conference with other Governors. When Lieutenant Governor Paul N. Cyr jumped at the governorship last October and was caught politically off-base, Governor Long had Senate President Alvin Oliver King sworn in to take his place. When Huey Long went to the U. S. Senate, his friend Alvin King stepped into the Executive Mansion, leaving Louisiana with no Lieutenant Governor, no Senate President. Next person in line to substitute for Governor King was Alice Lee Grosjean. She is a good friend of Huey Long's, used...
...included the late William Jennings Bryan, he sat down to breakfast, found a wooden decoy duck on his plate. It was explained that each was to eat what he had shot the day before. Said Governor Neff: "The report that I never fired a gun almost cost me my governorship. Now my expert marksmanship is about to rob me of my breakfast...
...beaten for Governor in 1910. Elected in 1912 to the House of Representatives he was beaten in 1916 because he dared to predict that President Wilson, instead of "keeping us out of War" would put us in. In 1918 he made a second futile attempt at the Governorship, then retired to Tishomingo to bide his time...