Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tuesday the Harvard Republican Club will run a public mass meeting at the Harvard Union. Congressman Beede will speak, as well as a number of other prominent men in the political world...
...Republican Club of Harvard will have an organization meeting at the Union on October 16 and Congressman Beedy of Maine will speak before the club at that time. Other pre-election activities of the Club include another luncheon at the Union on October 25, at that time Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., of the class of 1908 will address the Republicans...
...made up of voters who in spite of regular party affiliations intend to support Smith. The list of speakers which these clubs have secured for the last three weeks of October includes Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Democratic nominee for governor of New York, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president, Congressman Carroll L. Beedy of Maine and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt...
Among the other speakers will be Frank J. Manning, Socialist candidate for United States Congressman from the sixteenth Massachusetts district. Mr. Manning comes from a strong Socialist district. He has been president of the Boston Educational Forum and is on the executive board of the Young People's Socialist League. A member of the defense committee of the Sacco-Vanzetti case, he also was appointed confidential secretary of the general strike committee of the New Bedford Textile Council...
That there would be a scramble in the midlands over the 1928 nomination was visible a year ago. Herbert Hoover began looking around for a Midwestern manager. It was natural for him to ask James William Good, a onetime (1909-1921) Congressman from Iowa. Secretary Hoover had known Congressman Good as an able legislative Committeeman. He came from Cedar Rapids, near the Hoover birthplace (West Branch). Above all, he was the man who had organized the Midwest for Calvin Coolidge in the 1924 campaign...