Word: governor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college presidents of New England, Governor McCall, Mayor Peters, and other prominent men are to be the guests of honor, and will be given an informal reception by the groups from the various colleges...
...president of the day will be Chief Justice Rugg of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Among the honorary vice-presidents are Governor McCall and Mayor Peters of Boston. The heads of many of the leading colleges and universities of the East, including President Lowell, have announced that they will be present at the meeting...
...University was represented by 51 graduates in the various units of the American relief expedition recently sent from New England to aid the stricken city of Halifax. On the day of the disaster President Lowell was, with others, in conference with Governor McCall, and arrangements were made immediately to send the first special relief train, in charge of the vice-chairman of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety...
...taken an active part in politics. For years he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and during the last two years was speaker of that body. In 1905 he was a candidate for mayor of Boston. In 1908 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts and was twice reelected. In 1911 he was the Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts and was barely beaten at the polls by Governor Foss, who was a candidate for re-election. He is now serving his second term as an Overseer of Harvard College, and has been also a lecturer...
...places with poor railroad connection. A project has lately appeared to start such a system between London and Paris. Although crossing the Channel was an unusual feat eight years ago, the recent progress in aviation has made that same trip an every-day occurrence. We have read that the governor of Rhode Island traveled by this method when he visited France not long ago. What was seldom done in times of peace has been made a daily necessity by war-time needs. Rivalry for the supremacy of the air is a forceful incentive to make machines in greater numbers...