Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Walton Griest is a public utilities operator from Lancaster, Pa. As chairman of the Post Office Committee he quietly dispenses a vast quantity of Federal jobs. He controls the votes of the Pennsylvania bloc, 36 strong...
...House, Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland, leader of the "wet bloc," was re-elected and so were most of his most vigorous bloc-mates-New York's Sirovich, La Guardia, Black; Illinois' Sabath, Britten; Missouri's Dyer. But Representative S. Harrison White, wet Coloradoan, is out and Maryland's John Philip Hill, Leader Linthicum's predecessor, failed to get back into Congress. All this in the face of the best efforts of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment...
Then there was the Dry bloc at Houston. The Warrior surmounted it, but not without losses...
...opposition to Smith ebbed steadily. Georgia's 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...
...room without a bath, lost his famed temper (TIME, May 28), vowed he never would vote for Smith. Missouri's Reed, after seeming to have quieted down, snapped "I am tired of this rot," and issued a statement which was a transparent attempt to rally the dwindling dry bloc. But it seemed that nothing upsetting would really happen-unless there came a fight over the party's platform...