Word: groesbeck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, President Coolidge's official Thanksgiving Day proclamation gave thanks to the Almighty for U. S. blessings. Many a governor followed in the wake of the President's example. But not in Michigan-for there, Governor Alexander J. Groesbeck casually produced a Thanksgiving Day proclamation without any reference to God. Three days before he issued it, he had received a letter from the Michigan Rationalist Association urging him not to "give thanks to any God, Almighty or otherwise...
...Thorndike Dudley Howe of Boston, Victor Owen Jones of Cambridge, and James Lawrence Pool of New York, and from the class of 1929, Talbot Baker of Milton and Winslow Carlton of New York. The men nominated from the Law School are Theodore William Monroe of Milo, Maine, and Ernest Groesbeck Augevine of Arlington. From the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences the nominees are D. C. Hunt and R. A. McFarland...
...matter with the Secretary of War-it would have his approval); John V. Mahan, National Commander, and a delegation of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War to ask the President to attend their convention in Atlanta next June; Governors Brewster of Maine, Hardy of Florida, Groesbeck of Michigan, "Twenty-four-votes-for-Underwood" Brandon of Alabama, to lunch and to ask the President to attend the next conference of Governors to be held either at Mackinac Island (Michigan), or at Cheyenne; Socialist Congressman Victor Louis Berger of Wisconsin to ask the President to restore rights of citizenship...
...knows they are fighting and permits the fight to go on, he may be fined and thrown into jail unless he has the temerity to pile out of bed and stop it. . . . "This bill creates another new sin, an unenforceable law." In Lansing, Mich., Governor Alexander J. Groesbeck vetoed a bill for the appointment of a state poet laureate. Forgetful of the state poets of republican Athens, the Governor's historical knowledge led him to describe the bill as "a reversion to monarchical customs" which "has no place in a republican form of government...
...Warren was called to Washington in advance of the nomination and therefore a hint of it leaked out. The Michigan delegation in Congress, headed by Senator Couzens, began to make some objection, protesting that if a Michigan man was to be appointed they would prefer Governor Groesbeck to Mr. Warren. The President paid no heed, however, evidently feeling that a Cabinet appointment was not patronage and that accordingly he need consult only himself. Result: Mr. Warren's nomination was sent to the Senate next...