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Every presidential aspirant began to count his fingers and then his toes. "The race of 1924 is open to all," said he, "Gird on my sandals."
who because of their conjugal attachments to another man and their affection for a Spaniard, are unable to return the young aspirant's love. At least the audience seemed to be perfectly familiar with such a state of affairs, and laughed and smirked as only a thoroughly sophisticated audience can...
¶ Franklin D. Roosevelt claimed 253 votes for Governor Smith of New York on the first ballot, with a rapid increase of strength thereafter. Smith, the leading so-called wet aspirant, de fined his stand on prohibition by issuing a statement:
Democratic. To aspirant William G. McAdoo went Kentucky and Oregon and apparently also Wyoming the latter by default of all opposition. Some 410 or 420 delegates were claimed for the ex-Secretary of the Treasury.
The McAdoo forces went to Manhattan to attend a meeting of the Committee on Arrangements for the Democratic National Convention. The meeting of the Committee was to choose a temporary chairman, the so-called keynoter for the Democratic Convention. Each aspirant for the nomination naturally wanted a key-note speaker...