Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire program is planned to commemorate the establishment in this country of constitutional government, a form imported from England by the Puritan fathers when they first settled in America. In order to present the most striking program possible, a committee appointed by the Governor has been working many months preparing the report which last night was filed with the Clerk of the Legislature. In addition to Mr. Parker, who is chairman of the commission, Harvard men who have been assisting on the committee are Allan Forbes '97, Wellington Wells '90, and F. B. Winthrop '91. Dr. Henry Colt, also...
...Austin, Governor Dan Moody reminded Texas...
Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico and (selfstyled) "ambassador to the Caribbean," gets help from newspapermen on the tyro Spanish in which, with dogged goodwill, he addresses his charges when- ever he can. Last week one newspaperman could not forbear to relay to the U. S. two of the Governor's better "breaks" in recent Spanish-speeches...
Died. Mrs. Edith Emerson Forbes, 87, daughter of Transcendentalist Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), mother of onetime (1909-13) Governor-General William Cameron Forbes of the Philippines; at Milton, Mass...
...instead of a furtive, unmentionable but widespread practice appeared again last week when the American Birth Control League held, in Manhattan, its first general conference in five years. The calibre of the sponsors suggested a changing social attitude-the wife of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament, the wife of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Flagler, Sherwood Eddy, Norman Thomas, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Harry Emerson Fosdick. . . . The conferees deplored the fact that there are only 29 centres in the U. S. where birth control information is given- four places in California (Los Angeles...