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...disturbed" by "hot weather stories" about his presidential candidacy. Later in the week he issued a statement which the politically-wise took none too seriously: "I am not a candidate for President .... Purely speculative and wholly false insinuations about any consideration which I am giving to national candidacy. . . . This [Governorship of New York] is a man's-sized job which takes all my time...
When he played football at Dallas College in Oregon, young Dan Poling did not care for liquor. He cared for it still less in 1912 when he ran for the Governorship of Ohio on a Prohibition ticket. Had he been elected he could not have taken office because he was too young (28). But he, a young zealot with the build of a lumberman, was merely propagandizing for his cause. Afterward he became secretary of the famed "Flying Squadron," a Prohibition-boosting committee which in 1914-15 visited and pleaded in each & every state. He enjoys a close Dry friendship...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr. may yet become a governor," said a press despatch from Washington last week. The governorship meant was not that of New York, for which he has campaigned, nor of the Philippines, which he would like to get, but of Porto Rico. President Hoover, said reports, had asked Porto Ricans how they would like Col. Roosevelt. . . . Last fortnight a cable from Hong Kong to Manhattan said: GREAT LUCK SHOT GIANT PANDA JOINTLY STOP THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A panda, also called wah, is a large dimwitted Asiatic raccoon. The "jointly" in the Roosevelt cablegram referred to the fact that...
...crusade when he plunged into another. Never had New York read more scandalous and shocking testimony than Lawyer Hughes uncovered in the Armstrong Insurance Investigation. Riddled with greed and corruption, the insurance companies had become a public menace. Hughes exposed their practices and then, from the pinnacle of the Governorship to which his crusading had lifted him, put through a code of laws designed to be a permanent safeguard...
Last week there was an agitation in Boston for a burning. Not for witch burning was the urge, but for check burning. As everyone knows, Alvan Tufts Fuller, recently retired Governor of Massachusetts, never accepted any salary for his eight years of Governorship, Lieutenant-Governorship. Checks were given him totalling $56,000. He saved them as mementos, never cashed them. This he was able to do because he is a millionaire, owns the Packard Motor Car Co. of Boston...