Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A few hours after the arrival of the Pennsylvania delegation, a wag altered the "b" in "but" on the poster and scratched out two letters of the big sign below. The change was slight, but now the signs posed one of the most intimate questions of the convention: "Who put...
After he was "over," Hoover's head quarters admitted the bold extent to which they had bluffed in their pre-convention claims about delegates. They admitted that the arrival of the big and baffling Pennsylvania delegation was like the night before Christmas. New York and Massachusetts would do as...
During the convention, Secretary Mellon and Boss Vare sat side by side in the front row. They chatted together, sometimes laughed together. Perhaps they were patching things up. Perhaps they really like one another. Perhaps the Vare-Mellon rivalry is a fiction. Perhaps there are simple explanations of what happened...
Mellon: "Good morning, Mr. President. I am leaving for the convention and have come to say good bye."
The radio was going. Shortly after the monstrous voice of John L. McNab was heard, at about eight o'clock, the radio sounded as if it had broken. It began to roar, hum, shriek, blare, clatter. The Beaver Man's name had been placed before the convention.