Word: conventionalize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Chicago, Ill., June 9.--The first ballot in the Republican convention was cast at 8.30 o'clock tonight. Hughes led the field with 253 1-2, while Roosevelt was eighth with 65. The other candidates trailed in the following order: Weeks, 105; Root, 103; Cummins, 85; Burton, 77 1-2...
Senator Borah's unexpected desertion of the Republicans and his entry into the Progressive convention this morning was the subject of much comment in both camps. Senator Borah declared himself in favor of the Colonel, but pleaded for harmony, and said that the essential object was the preservation of the...
Chicago, Ill., June 8.--The spirit of compromise was the key-note of the Convention session this afternoon, and the feature of the official activities was the appointment by Chairman Harding of a committee of five to confer with a similar committee of Progressives for the direct purpose of finding...
On paper, Hughes is far in the lead, and it is the opinion of many prominent "Old Guard" Republicans that he will be nominated on the second ballot. Governor Samuel W. McCall being one of these. There is, however, a strong undercurrent of Roosevelt feeling, and although the Convention seems...
Exclusive reports of the progress of the convention will be received by special dispatch each day.