Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert L&233;vitt is a Unitarian, a Republican, a World War veteran (wounded and gassed). He holds degrees from Meadville Theological School, Columbia (cum magnis honoribus), Harvard and Yale Universities. A hardy perennial in Connecticut politics, he regularly runs for the House of Representatives, the Senate or the Governorship, thus far without success. He used to conduct a permanent but unavailing crusade to oust the late J. Henry Roraback, Old Guard boss of Connecticut Republicanism. In between times Mr. L&233;vitt sought unsuccessfully to oust the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission. He is also a chronic letter-writer...
...fact that his department conferred on him in 1933 its prized Nathaniel Ropes chair, left Cambridge a month later to become economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since then a Harvard professor chiefly in name, he has been upped to the bank's deputy governorship, which the 1935 Banking Act converted into a vice-presidency. Last week, with a shrewd competitive stroke, Harvard's Conant tethered an elusive man and filled a difficult job. He appointed John Henry Williams as first dean of Harvard's slowly hatching Littauer School of Public Administration...
Woodrow Wilson's tremendous success is the most outstanding of these factors contributing to the interest of the narrative. His rise from a college professorship to the presidency of Princeton, thence to the governorship of New Jersey, and finally to the White House, enables his daughter to make this otherwise simple family story a vivid portrayal of the disturbing effects of fame and a public career on their quiet home life. This theme, although rarely dealt with in the past, is a dramatic one, and the writer treats it capably with a touch of humor and a strange note...
True, Aglipay was in arms against the U. S. Government, but when he became convinced that the contest was hopeless he surrendered. Since his surrender he has loyally upheld the administration. After William Howard Taft retired from the Governorship, he accepted the position of honorary President of the Independent Church. All through his administration he was a friend of Archbishop Aglipay...
...political arena he has held to liberal Republican principles, and he was defeated by only a few thousand votes in the last election in his race for the Lieutenant-Governorship, showing great strength in the face of the Democratic landslide. He is a director of a number of Boston banks and companies, and a member of the Board of Overseers...