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...latter's newspapers mendaciously blamed Smith for a bad milk situation in Manhattan. In 1922, Smith refused to lead his State ticket until Hearst was withdrawn as candidate for the U. S. Senate. In 1926, when Hearst supported Ogden L. Mills against Smith for the New York governorship, Smith characterized it as "the kiss of death" for Mills. Mills was badly beaten. This year, Hearst has signed editorials praising Hoover and sneering at Smith...
Bowed with shame Governor Mitsunosuke Kamiyama of Formosa resigned, last week, to expiate the stigma cast upon his administration. President Takeji Kawamura of the South Manchurian Railway Co., laid down his duties as such last week, to pop into the vacated governorship...
From such lowly origin he rose through military apprenticeship under Andrew Jackson, six months' law study and admission to the bar, governorship of Texas, championship of the Indians, and national notoriety gained by a brawl with a Senator, to generalship of the Texan army, 800 strong. For Texas had at last revolted against the duplicity of the Mexican government...
...when "Uncle Alf" Taylor first stumped from Knoxville to Memphis and back again, campaigning for the Governorship against his Brother Bob, he fiddled in vain for the political support of the gentlemen of Tennessee. Last week, the gentlemen of Tennessee, political and notable, danced attendance on Uncle Alf. In the greatest fox hunt the state has ever known, Tennessee honored its beloved old sportsman and one time (1920-22) governor, Alfred Alexander Taylor. And up in the rugged foothills of the Smoky Mountains, on the northeastern tongue of Tennessee, the rugged 80-year-old "Sage of Happy Valley" played jovial...
...have always considered the Governorship of Massachusetts as second only to the Presidency and I assure you I am not interested in any minor jobs such as Vice President or Senator or anything like that...