Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anti-Smith Democrats, they were gathered in their first State convention to put an independent ticket into the field against the regular Democratic organization led by Governor Byrd, Senators Glass and Swanson.
The convention:
5) Collided with the race issue as the result of specific demands for a denunciation of Mrs. Hoover's White House reception of Mrs. Oscar De Priest, wife of Illinois' Negro Congressman. I. C. Trotman of Suffolk, who had telegraphed Mrs. Hoover that her act had cost the Hoovercrats 25...
With the convention over, observers waited to see whether the political hatreds and animosities of last year's national campaign could be successfully transposed to a state election in the South.
Not only in geography and result did the Taitt election differ from the previous five. All other nominees were comparatively young men. Dr. Taitt is five years older than 62-year-old Bishop Garland. He has labored in the Pennsylvania vineyard all his life. Other nominees took several weeks of...