Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston University Law School four years later. At 24 he began to practise law at Fitchburg. At 27, as a "common people's" Democrat, he was sent by a hidebound Republican district in Worcester to represent it at the State House in Boston. He was Massachusetts' Lieutenant-Governor- the first Democratic one in 70 years-in 1913 and its Governor in 1914 & 1915. In 1918 he was elected to the U.S. Senate...
...Treasury Mellon?for he was one of the three?removed his coat without aid (none of the White House staff had yet arrived) and laid it neatly on a messenger's desk. Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills tossed his coat into a chair. So did Roy Archibald Young, governor of the Federal Reserve Board. President Hoover cheerfully greeted his three visitors, led them into the Cabinet room, closed the door...
Chairs were pulled close to the table. The President talked. Secretary Mellon talked. Governor Young talked. Undersecretary Mills read figures from papers. Thirty minutes later the four men arose with one thing definitely settled: There should be immediate tax reduction...
...atmosphere of a mystery-melodrama was the tax announcement framed. First President Hoover held an early morning White House conference with Secretary Mellon, Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, Governor Roy Archibald Young of the Federal Reserve Board. So early in the morning was it and so unprepared were newsmen for such a development that Governor Young, unrecognized, entered and left the White House without being caught and catechized...
...Theodore Roosevelt, wife of the Governor of Porto Rico, received from King Bao-Dai of Annam. (French Indo-China) a gaudy bauble, the Order of Virtuous Wives...