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Likely candidates for the vacant governorship seemed to be: Agent General for Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert; Edward Henry Cun- ningham of Iowa, already a Federal Reserve Board member; William P. Gould Harding, governor of the Boston Federal bank. Mr. Harding was Mr. Crissinger's predecessor...
...Rubi, was acquitted last week by a court-martial in Madrid of the charge (TIME, July 5), that he fomented a plot last summer to seize the Government. Citizens of the U. S. know that "Butcher" Weyler, 88, has not yet lived down the odium of his bloodthirsty governorship of Cuba (1896-97) - a direct and major cause of the Spanish-American War. From blood, oppression, graft, he wrung a fortune now one of the largest in Spain...
Last week Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock announced his engagement, planned for a wedding in June. Tired, Insurgent Norris saw his friendly enemy turning to retirement and marriage; almost simultaneously he announced he would retire when his present term is up. But not to petty private life. For the Governorship of Nebraska he will set his aim; once in that office he intends to make Nebraska "the model state...
...political jobs was county prosecutor. He secured 285 convictions out of 287 cases during his 15-month term-an astounding record. On such food the inquisitor of the Senate was trained. For two terms he was an able Mayor of Kansas City. In 1904 he reached prematurely for the governorship and received his only popular defeat. Then he returned to his law practice, sharpened his tongue and his wits. In 1911 it was a polished lawyer and not a politician, a satirist and not a reformer, who entered the U. S. Senate. He has been there ever since, despite combined...
...Ferguson has surrendered the governorship of Texas in a blaze of notoriety. During her term of office she has evinced an almost complete lack of executive ability and a strange predilection in favour of prisoners, over 3000 of whom she has pardoned. By a probably unprecedented reverse English on petticoat government, she is said to have been misdirected by her husband, former governor James Ferguson...