Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He then dealt with "real fighting ground"-the five border states-and conceded their 47 votes to Davis. These are: Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri, Oklahoma.
Mark Sullivan did not conclude with a flourishing "Q. E. D." Instead, he stated his biggest assumptions. These were three in number and each bore differently on the tentative result. He had assumed: 1) that New York, Iowa and California would go Republican; 2) that LaFollette would carry Minnesota; 3...
Finally, Mark Sullivan estimated that the greatest possibility of Davis and LaFollette combined depriving Coolidge of a majority lay equally in: 1) La-Follette carrying Iowa and California; or 2) Davis carrying Indiana and New Jersey.
"When the first flush of candidacy is over, a fellow stops in his tracks and just wonders what it is all about. . . . Somehow it seems I'm just a short, fat, baldheaded man who has learned much in the last year and will learn a lot more in the...
¶Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, spoke at Cincinnati two weeks after his fellow lawyer, Secretary of State Hughes, whom he called "the clever lawyer who falls back on methodical ignorance-to shield his client, President Coolidge." Mr. Colby then proceeded into the stormy state of Indiana...