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...have played some part. But the most plausible hypothesis is that of a political motive. He has already announced that if affairs at the White House should not proceed in accord with his standards, he would toss his ha into the presidential ring. Since he came into the governorship on a wave of reform sentiments, he may well have seized this opportunity to show the nation that his might is still on the side of right. But actions speak louder than words and prying eyes may look into Pennsylvania when the campaigns begin...
...from that gentleman's lackeys- nursed Sylvia through the plague, then raging-escaped from a dead-cart-and generally conducted himself in such proper d'Artagnan fashion that it seemed only fair for Mr. Sabatini to reward him with Sylvia's hand and a nice little governorship somewhere in the Indies...
...Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Wilson, Chief Conservative whip and Parliamentary Secretary of the Treasury, resigned these positions on appointment to the Governorship of Bombay in succession to Sir G. A. Lloyd. Commander Eyres-Monsell succeeds Colonel Wilson as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury. Major Archibald Boyd Carpenter succeeds Commander Eyres-Monsell as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty...
Senator Wheeler, who is only 41 years of age, is a Democrat and a " radical." In 1920 he was defeated in the election for the governorship of Montana. Last Fall with the aid of the Non-Partisan League he was elected Senator. He has allied himself with the progressive bloc in Congress...
AARON BURR. " He was a man who came into the world to amuse himself." He loved people and people loved him?especially women. A spendthrift?something between a Chesterfield and Falstaff. He lost the presidency of the United States by a hair's breadth, he lost the governorship of New York, he lost, he lost, he lost?finally even the use of his limbs. But he enjoyed it all, because life was his game...