Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Tudor Gardiner '14, Governor of Maine, will preside at the football dinner to be given in honor of the 1929 Crimson gridiron forces Thursday evening at the Harvard Club, it was announced last night by E. W. Soucy '16, Chairman of the Harvard Club committee on the football dinner...
...London naval conference-succeed Mr. Edge in the Senate (TIME, Dec. 9). Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of Raritan, N. J., and his friends had long been planning to boost Mr. Frelinghuysen back into the Senate seat he lost in 1922. He had already entered the Jersey Republican primary when Governor Larson announced the Morrow appointment. With a contest inevitable, Frelinghuysen friends charged that Mr. Morrow had been tricked into accepting the nomination with false assurances that he would be unopposed in the primary...
...Face. Except for Mr. Morrow, newcomers to the Senate will offer little help out of the leadership tangle. The newest Senate face-long, pointed, with fun-filled eyes-is that of Patrick Sullivan, born on St. Patrick's Day 64 years ago in County Cork, Ireland. Governor Emerson of Wyoming appointed him to the Warren vacancy. Since 1917 he has been Wyoming's Republican National Committeeman. Like his predecessor a wealthy sheep rancher, Senator Sullivan grew up with the West, prospered with its oil. He lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full...
...Georgetown University Seismological Observatory ; at Washington; of heart disease. For 25 years he located, observed, reported some 9,000 earthquakes yearly. Died. Robert Forster Whitmer, 65, President of Central West Virginia & Southern R. R. of West Virginia; at Chestnut Hill, Pa. Died. Charles James McCarthy, 68, onetime (1918-21) Governor of Hawaii; at Honolulu; of cancer of the throat. In 1890 he became a member of the monarchical House of Nobles, was a staunch supporter of Queen Liliuokalani (deposed 1887). Died. Benjamin Franklin Yoakum, 70, longtime railroader, director of Seaboard Air Line, director and onetime President of St. Louis...
...announcement that Governor Ritchie will speak in Boston during the week has evidently relegated Orthodoxy to a minor position in favor of the more pertinent question of Prohibition. For the good of the people, perhaps, the pernicious influence of the English scholar has been allowed to seep in to keep their attention occupied while the Law and Order brigade amuses itself by presenting a cold shoulder to the Maryland...