Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Franklin Roosevelt laid his plans for the Republican National Convention. Whether Congress adjourns for good or merely recesses over the convention, the President announced that he would leave Washington the day before the Republicans officially assemble in Cleveland. On the second day of their convention he would be in Little Rock, making a speech on behalf of Arkansas' Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who is up for reelection. Next Presidential stops will be Houston, San Antonio and Dallas where, presumably on the day that the Republicans nominate their candidate, he will address a rally of 40,000 Texans...
...slate beat the Borah slate 4-to-1. Among Landon delegates-at-large, however, Hoffman ran fourth, 50,000 votes behind Oldster Edge, whose comeback raised political eyebrows. Recognizing the rebuke, the Governor announced with unaccustomed modesty that he would not aspire to chairman the New Jersey delegation at Cleveland, resigned that post of honor to Mr. Duffield...
...Alice Roosevelt Longworth actively opposed him. For the first time in her long political life the eldest child of Roosevelt I stood for election and Ohio gave her some 278,000 votes of approval. Mrs. Longworth has attended six Republican National Conventions, as an interested spectator. Next month at Cleveland she will attend her seventh, as an Ohio delegate-at-large favoring the nomination of Robert Alphonso Taft...
...since West Virginia law does not recognize write-ins, the Landon votes were not counted; 3) in the election of the State's 16 delegates to the Republican Convention, 15 were for Governor Landon and one was doubtful. The only sure Borah vote from West Virginia at Cleveland will be that of the Senator's national campaign manager, onetime Representative Carl Bachmann...
...Harvard summary: goal, Howard, Harrigan; p, Witherspoon, Amesbury; cp, Warwick, Whittemore, White; ld, Magurn; 2d, Duffey, Baum, Cushman; c, Rowland, Campion; 1a, Cleveland, Baker; 2a, Scott, Borden; oh, Hunsaker, Hartstone; ih, Wood...