Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballot: Smith, 849?; George, 55½; Reed, 52; Hull, 50?; Jones, 43; Watts of South Carolina, 18; Harrison of Mississippi, 8½; Woollen, 7; Donahey of Ohio, 5; Ayres, 3; Pomerene, 3; Bilbo of Mississippi, 2½; Thompson, 2; not voting...
...George, Tennessee's Hull, and Mississippi's Harrison declined to be sheer "anti's." Arkansas' Robinson said his delegates were free. So did Ayres of Kansas. Young Governor Moody of Texas refused to lead the dry bloc. Indiana offered to shift to Smith after one ballot for Banker Evans Woollen. Ohio's Newton Diehl Baker, long a Smith endorser, sent word from Cleveland that a united party was the essential thing. Before the first gavel fell, the Smith managers were concerned lest their progress look like "steam-rollering." They confined themselves to distributing 50 cases...
...Herbert Hoover was nominated for President of the U. S. on the first ballot, with 837 votes...
Friday. A. M.-Charles Curtis was nominated for Vice President of the U. S. on the first ballot with 1,052 votes...
...first thing for the Presbyterians to do was to elect a moderator to succeed Dr. Robert E. Speer. This they did with rapidity on the first ballot. The new moderator is Dr. Hugh Kelso Walker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, a clear thinking moderate, who has never embroiled himself in the Fundamentalist v. Modernist controversy. He beat the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, by a vote of 593 to 318. The moderate moderator named a vice moderator to help him in administering the affairs of his church. This...