Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, was frequently mentioned last week in Washington as a candidate for the governorship of Pennsylvania to succeed Gifford Pinchot. The Pennsylvania Senators, (Pepper and Reed) and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon are understood to be supporting him. Mrs. Mary Key McBlair, a retired Government clerk, 72 years of age, lives in Washington. She has a pension of $20, a month because of Government service. Last week Representative E. Hart Fenn of Connecticut introduced a bill to give her a pension of $1,200 a year, saying that she is in destitute circumstances. Mrs. McBlair...
...Kondylis and Hadjikyriakos all enlisted under the banner of Plastiras and Gonatas. While the unhappy George II "reigned though he could not rule," a degenerate struggle for supremacy was waged between Plastiras at Athens and his purely nominal adherent, Pangalos, who had succeeded in demanding and obtaining the military governorship of Macedonia and Thrace. Bribes and the subtle poisons for which the modern Greeks are notorious were resorted to with abandon. By 1923, Pangalos had gathered sufficient power to become chiefly instrumental in forcing King George II into exile (TIME, Dec. 31, 1923) despite the Influence of "Dictator" Plastiras...
Jonathan Trumbull graduated from Harvard in 1727, and rose to the governorship of Connecticut in 1769. He held this post for 14 years, throughout the Revolutionary period. Washington leaned heavily on Trumbull for both assistance and advice in the long series of emergencies and during these critical years Trumbull never failed to respond when calls were made for men or money...
...Virginia, Democrat Harry F. Byrd walked into the Governorship by a substantial margin...
...life Mr. Osborne has been a reformer. A native of Auburn, N. Y., he entered journalism immediately after his graduation from college. From the office of President of the Auburn Publishing Company, he jumped into polities; and though his advocation of reform cost him the lieutenant governorship of new York, he was elected Mayor of Auburn in 1903. His two years' administration was marked by inform and progressive measures...