Word: dickenson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summary of the Freshman race follows: Wesley; Murphy; Foote; Dodge; Hughes; Hayes; Woodland (Y); Dickenson (Y); E. H. Clark '33; Gray (Y). Time--17 minutes, 39 seconds...
With Prof. Brown nominated, the Republicans proceeded to clinch the alliance by naming R. Walter Dickenson, an old-line Republican, for Lieutenant Governor. The anti-Smith Democrats were expected to adhere to this candidacy immediately, having left the second place on their ticket open for that purpose...
...Sullivan, G. O. P. writer, took pains to show that Herbert Hoover had needed only 275,000 more votes, properly distributed, to get the electoral votes of the eight-State fragment that he lacked of a State-unanimous election. As easily, the New York World, and Professor Frank G. Dickenson of the University of Illinois, showed that Governor Smith lacked only some 354,000 votes, properly placed-about 1% of the total votes cast-to be elected President with 268 electoral votes...
Professor Dickenson explained the "real meaning" of the Hoover "landslide" as follows: "Take ten voters. The first man votes for Hoover, the second man for Smith and so on to the ninth man, who votes for Hoover. The manner in which the tenth man now votes decides the landslide...
Great indeed was the responsibility of the five businessmen made trustees of the Juilliard Musical Foundation; but they turned most of it over to Dr. Eugene Allen Noble, onetime Methodist minister, onetime president of Goucher College and also of Dickenson College, who was made Executive Director...