Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Morrow's successor Colonel M. L. Walker, the Canal Engineer of Maintenance. Ever since Major General George W. Goethals, the Canal builder, retired in 1916 as the first Governor of the Canal Zone, it has been the custom to follow each retirement by appointing to the Governorship the Engineer of Maintenance, who is an assistant to the Governor and conversant with Canal affairs. In this manner Brigadier General Chester Harding succeeded General Goethals; Colonel Morrow succeeded General Harding ; and now Colonel Walker succeeds Colonel Morrow-continuing an unbroken line of experienced administrators...
There is a suspicious resemblance between the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for the Governorship of New York state, in 1924, and the nomination and consequent election of his more famous father to the vice-presidency...
Ever since leaving the Governorship he has been trying to enter the Senate. In 1914 he lost the nomination to Senator Smith. In 1918 he lost it to Senator Dial; in 1920 to Senator Smith again. In 1924 he won. The Senate has another fire-eater to look forward...
Maine, although normally Republican, is usually considered a barometer of the national election in November. This year, however, there was friction in the Republican ranks over the Governorship nomination. Mr. Brewster, supported by the Ku Klux Klan, won the primary after a recount. The Democrats thereupon made the Klan the issue. They called in Senator Underwood as a speaker. The Republicans called in General Dawes, Senators Watson and Willis, Speaker Gillette. They were scared. The Republican press went so far as to say in advance that Maine was no barometer this year because of the Klan issue...
...first primary, Judge Robertson ran first. In a close contest, with much counting long-drawn-out, Mrs. Ferguson ran second. In the final primary, she and Judge Robertson will contest, practically, for the Governorship. "Ma" Ferguson, as she is known, is chiefly sitting at home while her husband does most of the campaigning. The inference is that, if she is elected, he will also do most of the governing...