Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bryan had called "the enemy's country." In their intense suspicion of each other, the two wrangling camps had taken 44 ballots to nominate a compromise presidential candidate in 1920, and an exhausting 103 ballots in 1924. Having lost badly with both compromises, Ohio Publisher-Politician James M. Cox in 1920 and West Virginia Lawyer John W. Davis in 1924, the Democrats in 1928 turned to a man who unmistakably spoke for the Eastern big-city wets. At the Democratic Convention in Houston, held a fortnight after the Republican Convention, Al Smith won the nomination on the first ballot...
Perhaps the remarkable fact about Smith's showing in the election of 1928 was not that he ran so poorly in the South but that he ran so well in the North. He gathered 40.8% of the popular vote as against Cox's 34.1% in 1920 and Davis' 28.8% in 1924 (when the Progressive revolt under Wisconsin's Senator Robert La Follette took votes from both parties, but more from the Republicans than from the Democrats). In the nation's twelve biggest cities, which collectively had long returned a G.O.P. plurality in presidential elections, Smith...
Rights of Parents. When it came time for the defense, the oilmen did not even bother to present a formal defense. Said Jersey Standard Lawyer Hugh Cox: Humble and Jersey had indeed discussed prices. "But where's the price fixing in that? Jersey Standard is a holding company-it has no prices. No court has held that parents can't discuss and agree on prices. A decision that this was in violation of the law would affect hundreds and perhaps thousands of firms. A drastic reorganization of the structure of business would result." The lawyers...
...power boaters, there was Triumph's 29-ft. inboard cruiser ($15,990) with a cantilevered aircraft-carrier foredeck and all-electric galley. And for less expensive tastes, Molded Fiber Glass Boat Co. showed a 19-ft. outboard cabin cruiser ($2,800) designed by famed naval architects Gibbs & Cox. Other plastic boats ranged from Sock Boat Corp.'s do-it-yourself runabout ($395), which can be assembled by a novice in 20 hours to the 8-ft. ($325) Dhow midget rowboat. In general, outboards had less chrome, fewer fins, increased storage for gas, paid more attention to passenger comfort...