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...Alfred Emanuel Smith, though he had said he was no active candidate, waved his four-year-old Brown Derby vigorously at his enchanted friends. Plain, blunt John Nance Garner stuck ostentatiously to his Speakership. Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray with Oklahoma's 22 votes in his pocket stumped the Mid-West with violence and passion. Maryland's Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie charmed well-bred audiences while hoping for a convention deadlock to make him the lucky compromise candidate. Newton Diehl Baker went about his private business as if he had never heard of the Presidency...
Last week Alfred Emanuel Smith made his first open move to advance what was widely supposed to be his passive candidacy for the presidential nomination. To secure Smith-pledged convention delegates in Massachusetts where a candidate's written consent must be obtained, he gave his power of attorney to Chairman Frank J. Donahue of the Democratic State Committee. Chairman Donahue will now select a slate of Brown Derby delegates for the Massachusetts primaries in April...
Died. Joseph M. ("Little Joe") Brown, So, twice Governor of Georgia; after a long illness; in Marietta, Ga. His political tussles with the late Hoke Smith for party leadership kept Georgia Democrats in turmoil for 25 years. In 1928 Brown and Smith were finally reconciled in support of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Undersized...
...revealed this month by a presidential State-wide poll conducted by the Des Moines Register and Tribune. President Hoover got 14,778 out of 17,925 Republican straw votes. Out of 38,732 Democratic votes, Governor Murray led with 13,427; Governor Roosevelt followed with 13,401 and Alfred Emanuel Smith came third with...
Died. Florence Kelley, 72, famed humanitarian, ardent reformer of women's and children's labor laws, longtime secretary of the National Consumers' League, credited with having influenced the social policies of Alfred Emanuel Smith; of complications derived from anemia; in Philadelphia...