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...Harry M. Daugherty, stepped forward. His report had two interesting features. One was the provision giving women equal representation with men on the National Committee. At this the women delegates went wild. The men expressed approval. The other was a provision giving the National Committee power to oust any committeeman who refused to support the Convention's nominees?a threat for the Wisconsin group if they should turn from Coolidge to La Follette. The roar of approval which this provision produced was as great as that which had followed the clause for equal female representation. Wisconsin sat stolidly...
...Republicans could not afford to backslide in the recognition of women. Accordingly William M. Butler appointed Mrs. Alvin Tobias Hert of Kentucky, widow of the late "Tobe" Hert, former National Committeeman from Kentucky, to the vacant post. To recognize still further the sex, Mrs. J. Willis Martin of Philadelphia was elected Chairman of the Committee on Permanent Organization of the Convention-the Committee which was to select Frank W. Mon'dell for its permanent Chairman...
...first contest a delegation of two was accredited from the District of Columbia, one of the two a Negro. In a contest over the delegates from Mississippi, Perry W. Howard, a Negro, secured the seating of his delegation in preference to that of M. J. Mulvihill, Republican National Committeeman from that State. The most spectacular contest was over the delegation from Georgia. "Colonel" Henry Lincoln Johnson, who is National Committeeman from Georgia, brought a contest to unseat the so-called J. L. Phillips faction. It did not seem that he would succeed. Being a lawyer-a brilliant and able lawyer...
...letter from the grave helps Jazz-Bo spring some Georgia camp meeting stuff on the Republican National Committee, and Henry Lincoln Johnson, who eased himself in as National Committeeman in 1920, walks off again with the prize cake. 'Can he strut . . . that's what he never does nothing else...
...political leaders were still assembled in Manhattan, a conference took place behind locked doors in the Hotel Biltmore. Governor Smith himself, George E. Brennan, Democratic boss of Illinois (since the death of Mr. Murphy unquestionably the most in- fluential Democratic boss in the country), Norman E. Mack, Democratic National Committeeman from New York, Surrogate James A. Foley, son-in-law of the late Tammany leader and claimant to the Tammany throne, were present...