Word: bryan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, Senator Nye of North Dakota asked the following question: "Shall we as progressive people give our support to the candidate of Tammany, that institution which bitterly fought and assailed Lincoln; which left no stone unturned to defeat that great progressive leader, William Jennings Bryan; which is wide open to the charge of having traded its strength in 1924 against the interests of the candidacy of Robert M. LaFollette, the greatest of all leaders of progressive thought...
...less light-hearted Democrat might have been overcome by the thought that he was sitting at the official heart of the State which gave William Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner, to the Democracy. Nominee Smith of the Sidewalks was not overcome...
Charles Wayland Bryan, Nebraska Democrat in 1924, the Democracy's candidate for Vice President. Reason: "economic" (see below...
Beside the Kellogg program, the many treaties of arbitration and conciliation effected by President Wilson's Secretary of State, the late William Jennings Bryan, appear to have shrunken to documents of small importance. Secretary Kellogg has renewed the Bryan treaties when they expired as a matter of merest routine. One day last week he sat down and affixed his signature to a fresh batch-arbitration and conciliation treaties with Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia...
Since Alfred Emanuel Smith became the Democracy's sheet anchor, many a Dry Democrat has "swallowed the anchor" with many a different kind of grin and grimace. Charles Wayland Bryan, brother and manager of the late William Jennings ("grape juice") Bryan whose opposition to a Smith nomination in 1924 was second only to the McAdoo bitterness, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Nebraska this year. His method of anchor-swallowing last week, was to announce that he would support the Democratic ticket from the president down, for the following reason: "The Prohibition issue which...