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...morning after the night before (according to one story), Senator Borah was taking his ursine way through the Hotel Muehlebach lobby when he encountered tall Senator Smoot, who had sat up late discussing the vice presidency with other party wise...
...Senator Borah smiled his crinkly smile and asked: "Who's going to be nominated for Vice President...
Then (so the story goes), Senator Borah's smile vanished. "What the hell is the matter with you?" he cried. "Have you all gone crazy? I don't know much about politics, but evidently I know a thousand times more than Hoover! What do you want to do, crucify us all in November...
...Ruth Hanna Mc-Cormick went to bed believing the matter was settled. She was awakened about 6 a. m. and asked to go back to Secretary Mellon's room. The conference had decided that Mr. Dawes had been too anti-administration. Who else would please Illinois? Senator Borah had put in his word for Curtis earlier. Channing Harris Cox of Massachusetts had been blocked by Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, who wanted the nomination himself and would let no other Massachusetts man get ahead. The Curtis compromise resulted between 7 and 8 a. m. in a hotel room full...
When the convention went into session, Connecticut's John Quillin Tilson, Massachusetts' Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, Michigan's Chase Salmon Osborn and Missouri's Governor Sam A. Baker were all placed in nomination. But up got Senator Borah, out boomed the great Borah voice, up jumped the Kansans in a repetition of their Curtis demonstration the night before. The four other nominees withdrew. The Curtis delegate-daughter, handsome Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight of Rhode Island, seconded her father in 17 words after a seconding speech by New Jersey's (Senator) Walter Evans Edge, who removed...