Word: lieutenancy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...state legislature and the past four as secretary of state. > Republican John Chafee, 42, won in Rhode Island by a mere 398 votes in a 1962 race that was not officially decided for weeks. This year, in the generally Democratic state, Chafee was opposed by two-term Democratic Lieuten- ant Governor Edward P. Gallogly, 45. Chafee urged voters to split their ballots and in that effort received aid from an unusual source. The state election board, with two of its four-man membership appointed by Chafee, publicized its own instructions about how to split the Rhode Island ticket naming Johnson...
...center for the campaign of Joseph P. Ward for Governor and Edward F. McLaughlin for Lieuten ant-Governor was not a festive place: the posters were rumpled, the population was reduced to a few somnolent cigar smokers, and the carton on the front desk was full of lapelless Ward buttons--although a worker remarked that they'd run out of Kennedy buttons several days ago. "I think we've got a Kennedy hat left around here somewhere," she said...
...Suite 408 of the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, Averell Harriman and his lieuten ants sat looking at the face of Harry Truman on their television screen. When Truman named Harriman as his Democratic candidate, Ave glowed all over, murmured: "This is marvelous." Forty-five minutes later, Averell Harriman, wearing a grin so wide that it almost could be seen from behind, came out to face television himself. Making small clucking sounds all during his statement, Harriman exulted: "I am deeply moved by this mark of confidence from my old boss...
With a letter from Major General Sherman Miles and testimony of such work as the Grove tragedy to point to the Motor Squadron remains as one of the best chauces to see active duty when an emergency should arrive, according to Laurence O. Pratt '26, second Lieuten-ant in the First Motor Squadron of the Massachusetts State Guard...
After office hours, during World War I, Plewman trained to become an officer, studied military tactics, earned a lieuten ant's certificate. He applied for overseas service, was never called. Plewman foresaw, before most military men, how World War I must end. On Jan. 2, 1918, he wrote: "Everything points to Germany and Austria-Hungary having tremendous and increasing difficulty in persuading their peoples to fight on. ... An enemy offensive on the Western Front this year would leave the enemy worse off than ever, and doomed to certain defeat." There was an offensive : it ended in defeat...
| 1 |