Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pneu- monia. His son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, was at his bedside. He was the Senate's oldest member, its last Civil War veteran. Massachusetts-born, he went west after the Civil War, helped found the city of Cheyenne (1873). He was Wyoming's first Governor (1890). As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for twelve years, he helped supervise the expenditure of some 40 billions of public funds...
...Governor Morgan F. Larson of New Jersey, motoring by night from Trenton to Perth Amboy was startled as he passed through Princeton to have a rock crash through his car's window. Undergraduates swarmed about him, stopped his car, booed and jeered they knew not whom. Gravely Governor Larson got out, examined the shattered window, learned that the rioting students had just come from Cane Spree.* Goodnaturedly the Governor drove on, not waiting to see the students try to undress a besieged policeman...
...James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Walgreen (drug stores); Harold Leonard Stuart (Halsey, Stuart & Co., brokers) and his socialite sister; Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick (daughter of Founder Rockefeller, onetime wife of Trustee Harold Fowler McCormick) and her bosom socialite friend Mrs. Waller Borden; onetime Governor & Mrs. Frank Orren Lowden; Senator & Mrs. Charles Samuel Deneen; Editorial Writer & Mrs. Tiffany Blake of the Tribune; Miss Caroline ("Madame X") Kirkland, society colyumist of the Tribune; and Artist Frederick Clay Bartlett and his socialite sister; Bishop & Mrs. Charles Palmerston Anderson (he is the new presiding officer of the Protestant Episcopal...
...mouse, would shy from the monstrous thing U. S. engineers propose to build for $5,000,000. Who the financiers are, who the builders, was kept secret. That it was a bona fide project Harry Westcott of Westcott & Mapes, Inc., New Haven and Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted such a ship at a dinner of New Haven's august Union League Club. Westcott & Mapes are now estimating their bids on the structural work of not one, but two such planes. The builders expect that the first will be wrecked...
Passenger. Col. Theodore Roosevelt's wife's aunt, Mrs. Hoffman, 70, once declared that she would never ride in an ocean steamer, much less an airplane. Col. Roosevelt is now Governor of Porto Rico. Last week aged Mrs. Hoffman flew to San Juan from Miami to spend the fashionable Antillean season...