Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Alf Landon himself plumped for minimum-wages-for-women in his convention telegram, it seemed improbable that Joe Tipaldo would be employed in the Republican campaign. Already enlisted as a GOP speaker, however, was a more famed New Deal martyr, Fred C. Perkins of York, Pa. Because he could...
Only three years ago "Jim" Curley was a sadly neglected Democrat. In spite of having been for Roosevelt long before Chicago, in spite of making friends with the President's ambitious son James, he had not been rewarded with the job he coveted, Ambassador to Italy. All he had...
Wisecracks have played an important role in the career of New Hampshire's George Higgins Moses. The day in 1929 he called his Progressive Republican Senate colleagues "sons of the wild jackass," he made political enmities that have yet to cool. Last June, at the Republican National Convention in...
At the altar, Sister Mary Kimmer. beauteous, blonde 19-year-old evangelist, exhorted the sanctified to come up "receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost," give up all worldly things, become sanctified. A man who felt the spirit move toward a closer personal touch with Jesus went to the "sinners...
In Muncie, Ind. for a State Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose. Past Moose Director General James John Davis, long-time (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, and now Senator from Pennsylvania, recalled that Muncie's George Alexander Ball, millionaire fruit jar manufacturer, had 40 years ago let a...