Word: davises
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PETIE DAVIS
Hoover had going for him not only the Republican record of prosperity but also a deep split in the Democratic Party between I) the rural, Protestant, Prohibitionist bloc that William Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner, had led until his death in 1925, and 2) the urban bloc, largely Catholic and...
Perhaps the remarkable fact about Smith's showing in the election of 1928 was not that he ran so poorly in the South but that he ran so well in the North. He gathered 40.8% of the popular vote as against Cox's 34.1% in 1920 and Davis...
What happened in 1928 was that Smith's Catholicism and his opposition to Prohibition 1) lost him the votes of many Bryan Democrats, and 2) won him the votes of many city dwellers who had voted Republican in earlier years, or who had never before voted in a presidential...
To salve male souls, the female showing was not entirely based on driving skills. Explains blonde Mary Davis, 31,3 Hollywood restaurant owner and the driver of the winning Plymouth Belvedere in the low-price, eight-cylinder class: "We women did damned well in the mouth department-and we didn...