Word: alben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Democrats, for Vice President of the U. S. He received more than 800 votes (733? were necessary to nominate) before the "switches" began. Final results: Robinson, 1,035 1/6; Major-General Henry T. Allen (Kentucky), 21; Major George L. Berry (Tennessee), 11½; Governor Dan Moody (Texas), 9?; Senator Alben W. Barkley (Kentucky), 9; Senator Duncan U. Fletcher (Florida), 7; Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross (Wyoming), 2; Lewis G. Stevenson (Illinois), 2; Evans Woollen (Indiana), 2; not voting...
Kentucky. Alben W. Barkley, Democrat, v. Senator Richard P. Ernst, Republican. Kentucky is usually Democratic, although it now has two Republican Senators, elected along with the Harding and Coolidge landslides of 1920 and 1924. Mr. Barkley is against betting on horse races, otherwise Kentucky might be more certain to return to its old habit of electing Democratic Senators...
Basil L. Rowe of Alben, N. Y., drove his SV-A three-seater at 111.05 m.p.h. and won the Detroit Aviation Town and Country Club's prize. Jones Curtiss-Oriole led this race until forced down near the finish. The Yellow Air Cab took second...