Word: governor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...luncheon on Roosevelt's birthday, next Monday, on the fourth floor of the Boston City Club Auditorium. The luncheon will begin promptly at 12.30, but will be preceded by a reception at 12 o'clock. At 1 o'clock there will be speeches by His Excellency Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts; William Roscoe Thayer, '81, who is the leading biographer of President Roosevelt, and the Honorable James R. Garfield, son of President Garfield and member of President Roosevelt's cabinet...
...Governor Calvin Coolidge yesterday issued a statement addressed to the University undergraduates thanking them for their services during the recent police strike, and urging them to support the officers of the state in their efforts to enforce law and order now and in the future. The complete text of the statement, given out at the State Capitol, follows...
...York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and now President of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company; Arthur Woods, assistant to the Secretary of War, and formerly police commissioner of New York City; Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Owen Wister, the novelist; W. Cameron Forbes, ex-Governor of the Philippines; Joseph Lee of Boston, President of the War Camp Community Service; J. P. Morgan; Judge Julian Mack of Chicago; William Thomas of San Francisco; and Thomas W. Lamont and Eliot Wadsworth, who are now acting as joint chairmen of the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee, which is to raise fifteen million...
...place the maintenance of the public security in the hands of a body of men who have attempted to destroy it would be to flout the sovereignty of the law the people have made." This keynote sentence of the latest proclamation of Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts sums up in itself the feeling of unprejudiced and patriotic citizens of the Commonwealth. The police who deserted their posts are as reprehensible as the soldiers who in time of war deserted theirs. The former should never have been entrusted with the public safety. The people of Massachusetts will see to it that they...
Nearly every undesirable situation has its brighter aspects, and the Boston police strike has been no exception to this rule. If it has accomplished nothing else, it has brought to light men like Governor Coolidge. Throughout the whole unpleasant affair he has shown himself worthy of the greatest respect. His initiative, courage, and foresight saved his capitol, and possibly his state, from anarchy. The nation needs more public men who maintain in dealing with police strikers, that "there is no middle ground...