Word: garland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Virginia. Nationally significant was the election as Virginia's next Governor of Professor John Garland Pollard (William & Mary), regular Democrat, over Professor William Moseley Brown (Washington & Lee), Hoovercrat. Republican claim- stakes sunk in Virginia by Herbert Hoover last year were jerked up and cast aside as the State was returned to normal Democracy by a thumping 70,000-vote margin. When Republicans and anti-Smith Democrats coalesced on Professor Brown and "a new era of humanity" was predicted (TIME, July 8), President Hoover wished the new group well, hoped it would hold his 1928 gains in the South. Underlying...
Goodnow, who will have charge of the direction of "Success", is a former vice-president of the Dramatic Club, and a worker in the famous Harvard 47 Workshop of George Pierce Baker for ten years. At present he is giving a course in the theatre at the Garland School in Boston, and coaching amateur theatrical productions...
...made a trip back to Texas, to marry Emma Garland Morgan. A few years later he rode in the first Mexican Central train from Mexico City to El Paso, whence he went to New Mexico...
Last week regular Virginia Democrats-i.e., those who supported their presidential ticket and lost the State to the G. O. P.-held their primary, chose as their candidate Prof. John Garland Pollard of William & Mary. Polling five-sevenths of the 140,000 votes cast, he far outran two rivals, who, for a united Democracy, immediately pledged him their support. The primary campaign had been mild and lulling. No bad feeling was permitted to creep in. Democratic ranks were closed simultaneously with the polls...
Without explaining why the position was not tendered to Dr. Taitt in the first place, Bishop Garland said blandly: "We have worked together twenty-five years with a very intimate and happy relation between us. We will work together as long as God permits...