Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mississippi yielded to Ohio, and Newton D. Baker came forward to nominate, or rather to renominate, James M. Cox. He spoke mostly about Wilson and the League of Nations, and carried the audience with him in his demand for a return to "Wilson principles." When he had done, Ohio stood on its chairs and demonstrated, with the aid of Glee Clubs, for a quarter of an hour...
...retired members of Wilson's Cabinet: W. G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; Thomas W. Gregory, Attorney General; Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior; and Lindley M. Garrison, Secretary of War. California politicians even urged his nomination for the Vice Presidency to run with James M. Cox...
...moment the Yale shell touched shore, the crew sprang out to the smart one, two, threes of the cox, dashed away for a shower and to dress and then to the special train that was waiting to take them to Manhattan and the ship that is to carry them to France, for they will represent the U. S. in the eights races in the Olympic Games...
Governor Channing H. Cox, of the latter state, moved that the privileges of the Convention be accorded to Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton of Michigan to nominate the candidate of Massachusetts. Mr. Mondell put the motion: "The privileges of the Convention to Dr. Burton to nominate President Coolidge." There was a gust of laughter at this slip, covered up by a perfunctory chorus of "Ayes...
Without an official count of the figures, Governor Cox of Massachusetts made and Senator Watson from Indiana seconded the motion that General Dawes be nominated by acclamation. The motion was finally carried in a burst of wild cheering and shouting...