Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The silence emanating from the Administration's busy beaverish heir and beneficiary became, as the hyperbolists said, almost deafening. Following his telegram of the acceptance to the G. 0. P. Convention, Nominee Hoover addressed no word to the U. S. electorate. He actively avoided contact with the nation'...
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson arrived regally and went to stay with the Jesse Holman Joneses in their bungalow atop Mr. Jones's new Lamar Hotel. So far as the convention was concerned, Mr. Jones, who arranged it all, was the most important man in town. A Mr. Smith, of course...
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, vice chairman of the National Committee, was among those who urged a platform phrased in tabloid style. She also gave thought to the vice presidency, which seemed, as at Kansas City, to be the only real business before the convention. Mrs. Blair scoffed at the G...
There were two politically significant interviews during the pre-convention Smith week: 1) Atlee Pomerene, favorite son to whom the Ohio Democracy had pledged its delegates, called on Candidate Smith in Manhattan the day after Governor Ritchie of Maryland withdrew his candidacy. Observers concluded that Candidate Pomerene had offered to...
These were the words with which Buffoon Will Rogers described the invocation of the deity at the sessions of the Republican Convention (see p. 9). Will Rogers spoke without reverence but he spoke the truth. Four divines - an Episcopalian, a Catholic, a Hebrew and a Methodist-had. prayed on four...