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...Virginia, Democrat Harry F. Byrd walked into the Governorship by a substantial margin...
...life Mr. Osborne has been a reformer. A native of Auburn, N. Y., he entered journalism immediately after his graduation from college. From the office of President of the Auburn Publishing Company, he jumped into polities; and though his advocation of reform cost him the lieutenant governorship of new York, he was elected Mayor of Auburn in 1903. His two years' administration was marked by inform and progressive measures...
...helped to weaken his position. As a result Beveridge was defeated in the election by his Democratic opponent Samuel M. Ralston. In 1924 there was no senatorial election in Indiana, but Ed. Jackson with the support of the Beveridgites and the Ku Klux Klan managed to squeeze into the Governorship...
...Commission embarked at Naples aboard the Duilio, Italians considered it a good omen that Count Volpi is, strangely enough, "a self-made business man." His title was conferred upon him by King Vittorio Emanuele as a reward for his highly successful governorship of Misurata in Italian Tripoli. And it is well known that as a boy he was obliged to earn his own living as the result of financial reverses which had befallen his family...
...held only two offices of any importance-the Governorship of Indiana (1909-13) and the Vice Presidency of the U. S. (1913-21). In many ways, he was too genuine for the pomposities of politics...