Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fall poll, however, Harding scored an emphatic victory over Cox. 2030 votes were cast, which represented considerably more than 50 percent of the members of the University. Harding received 1075 votes, Cox 805, Debs, the Socialist, 110, Christensen 31, and Watkins...
Harding's majority was not a surprisingly large one," to quote the CRIMSON of October 21, 1920. "In the Medical School alone did the Republican decisively defeat Cox. In that department Harding polled 100 votes to the 51 of Cox. The Faculty vote, however, favored Cox by a slight majority. In the College Harding reaped the most telling vote, leading by over 100 ballots. Debs polled the remarkably large total of 110 votes, 60 of which came from the Socialist element in the College...
Carl Schurz Vrooman, of Bloomington, Ill. (hometown of the Pantagraph), an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in both Wilson administrations, a farmer's friend. Reason: Tammany. ("It double-crossed Wilson, Cox and Davis...
...lone survivor of the advance guard is Thomas Taggart, 71, of Indiana. It was Taggart, Murphy and Brennan (acting on deathbed instructions from Sullivan) who pushed aside McAdoo and forced the nomination of Cox at the Democratic convention in 1920. The same forces compromised on John W. Davis in 1924, when the Smith movement failed. Mr. Taggart is now in ill health and resides quietly at French Lick, Ind., playing croquet with his grandchildren...
Nominees Smith and Robinson exchanged congratulations. Each recalled campaigning together for Cox in 1920. Nominee Robinson proceeded to his home in Little Rock...