Word: governor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...poem will be one of the features of a book in celebration of the homecoming of the New England troops, which is being published by the Governor's and Mayor's Committee. The volume will carry no advertising and will be sold at cost. Manuscripts for the poem competition must be in the hands of the Program Committee, 40 Water street, not later than Saturday, April 12th...
...Granting freedom to the Philippines would require legislation by Congress, and is a matter to be carefully considered," said William Cameron Forbes '92, governor-general of the Philippines from 1909 to 1913 in regard to the petition of representatives of the Islands that independence be granted, and Secretary Baker's statement yesterday that President Wilson was in favor of such action. He was interviewed on the subject at his home late last night...
...fifty cents a day for three years were sent home at a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars to the Japanese company that imported the Chinese, it having been discovered, after protest had been made by Japanese labor, that the company had failed to get the consent of the governor of the district to bring in the Chinese. Japan, as against China, does not hesitate to exercise the right to exclude laborers not wanted...
...Bowdoin Prizes established by Governor James Bowdoin of the class of 1745 and increased by G. S. Bowdoin in 1901, are given for dissertations in English, Greek and Latin. The English prizes are three, one first prize of two hundred and fifty dollars, and two second prizes of one hundred dollars each...
...Governor Bamberger of Utah has proposed in a letter to the New York Times that foreign language newspapers in America be gradually required to print their reading matter in English. This, Mr. Bamberger suggests as part of an extensive program of education in Americanization to be taken up in the future...