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Dates: during 1920-1929
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New York has a Democratic Governor, by name Alfred E. Smith. He is a man of immense popularity in his own state. He is what politicians know as a "vote-getter." Naturally John W. Davis and the Democratic National Organization wanted Smith to run for reelection because it would strengthen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: By-Play | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

The quidnunes of National Politics now lean forward to watch the battle for the 45 electoral votes of New York?Coolidge raising the great war club, the prestige of a dead warrior's name; Davis lifting the shillelah of a great vote-getting Irish Governor.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: By-Play | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

Lazybones. Owen Davis has permitted this "chronicle of a country town" to be billed as his best play. He seems to have underestimated The Detour and Icebound and to have shown unwarranted overconfidence in the present cast.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 6, 1924 | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

In the year of our Lord, 1924, he was stung to something more than action. The Republican State Convention in Kansas refused to repudiate the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. White says that the Republican candidate for Governor, Ben S. Paulen, and the Democratic candidate, Governor Jonathan M. Davis, both received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Kansas | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

The effect of White's candidacy may be to split the Republican vote to reelect Governor Davis, although the State is expected to go Republican this year. That is something which concerns Kansas. But the whole country is considering the possibility of losing such a two-fisted editor?two-fisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Kansas | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

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