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What ardor was present resulted from the contested seating of blocs of delegates from South Carolina headed by Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert and from Mississippi under Negro Perry W. Howard. Postmaster General Brown, President Hoover's political organizer, had been working to weed out these national committeemen ever since the administration promised to "clean up the G. O. P. south" in 1929. But after a ballot behind closed doors the national committee voted to seat Messrs. Tolbert and Howard, first sign of Old Guard recalcitrance to White House suasion...
...story opens at a convention whose delegates have been forced into the sorry compromise of casting their ballots for a man named Hicks. His only recommendation lies in the fact that no one knows anything about him. As soon as the preternatural stupidity of Hicks becomes apparent, his committeemen perceive the necessity of hiring someone to promote his candidacy and to disguise his most obvious disqualifications. They find a campaign manager named Hal Blake (Warren William ) lodged in an alimony jail. "Hicks from the sticks" is the slogan which Blake invents; he approves when Hicks replies to reporters' questions...
...bill's proposed tariffs on oil, coal, lumber and copper spoiled its non-partisan character. Five Democrats of the Finance Committee signed a minority report flaying the log-rolling which put such duties into the measure. Democratic committeemen who did not sign this report were Kentucky's Barkley, proponent of a coal tariff; Texas' Connally and Oklahoma's Gore, proponents of a duty on oil; and Utah's King, copper...
...photograph of the class officers will be taken immediately afterward at Notman's Studio. All officers, including speakers and committeemen, are urged to be present, in cap and gown...
...photograph of the class officers will be taken immediately afterward at Notman's Studio. All officers, including speakers and committeemen, are urged to be present, in cap and gown...