Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arizona leader: "Arizona?one vote for John W. Davis, one-and-a-half votes for Underwood, three-and-a-half votes for William Gibbs McAdoo."
"Result of the nth ballot: total number of votes cast, 1,098; necessary for a choice, 732. Totals for this ballot: McAdoo 488½ Smith 336½ Davis of West Virginia 72½ Underwood 46½ Baker 57; Glass 26; Governor Bryan 3; Robinson 21; Ritchie 16½ Saulsbury 6; Owen 2; Walsh of Montana...
Deadlocked. McAdoo refused to withdraw. Smith refused to withdraw and leave the field to McAdoo. Both gained somewhat. Nobody gained a decision. Like the siege of Troy, the battle wavered back and forth. For McAdoo, for Smith and for John W. Davis (who was most of the time in third...
The only real advance made was in casualties among a few favorite sons: Ferris of Michigan dropped out on the 8th ballot; Silzer of New Jersey, on the 9th; Harrison of Mississippi, on the 15th; Brown of New Hampshire, on the 16th; Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska, on the 20th...
Died. Mrs. Waldo Percy Goff, sister-in-law of John W. Davis, onetime U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James; in Manhattan, of paralysis, after a year's illness.