Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into Manhattan's Mecca Temple last week crowded several thousand New York City Republicans to pick a party candidate for Mayor. There was only one avowed candidate-Congressman Fiorella H. La Guardia-after Congresswoman Ruth Pratt had withdrawn because she would not "scramble for votes." So, as Hobson'...
During the Republican National Convention at Kansas City last year, Claudius Hart Huston, Chattanooga businessman, sat in a Muehlebach Hotel room, kept in touch with New York and Washington by long distance telephone, whispered important things to onetime Governor James Putnam Goodrich of Indiana, behaved in a manner which led...
Chosen as F. N. G. C. organizer was William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, the man who led the "Equalization Fee March" around the Republican National Convention hall last year in Kansas City. Ever an enthusiast, Organizer Settle said last week in Chicago: "This is the...
General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, long of beard, lame of leg, empty of right sleeve, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since 1923 to attend, in Baltimore, the annual convention of the Rainbow (42nd) Division which was under his command when he broke...
On Bastille Day (July 14), French Ambassador Paul Claudel addressed the convention, said: "I ... feel impelled to raise the same question as did General Gouraud eleven years ago in Metz. And speaking with a loud voice above your heads, I address myself to the soldiers of France, not only to...