Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the next President of the U. S. was chosen by electors voting in each state capital. The electors constituted the Electoral College, as designated by the people on Nov. 6. In 40 states they voted for Herbert Clark Hoover, in eight states for Alfred Emanuel Smith. Thus was Mr. Hoover constitutionally elected, Mr. Smith constitutionally defeated. The election does not become official, however, until the ballots are tabulated at a joint session of Congress...
...traders poured facts, reports, rumors. Among them: ¶ The Brothers Fisher of Detroit, owning more common stocks than any other U. S. group, will form a billion-dollar investment trust to hold their securities. In Manhattan, the mighty Bankers Trust Co. will help finance the holding company. ¶ Alfred Emanuel Smith, vacationing in the South (see p. 9), has agreed to head the $50,000,000 bank now being organized by John Jacob Raskob and many another Manhattan capitalist...
...Tribune and New York Daily News are read by more than 4,000,000 people. His partner in these enterprises is his cousin. Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick. The two men are not one in editorial policy. Capt. Patterson, whose chief interest is the New York Daily News, supported Alfred Emanuel Smith in the campaign; every day, during the two months before election, the Daily News said on its editorial page: "If you are for Prohibition vote for Hoover. If you are against Prohibition vote for Smith." The Chicago Tribune and Col. McCormick supported Hoover, but remained...
Future. No lover of anticlimax, no man to misread the public mind twice, Alfred Emanuel Smith announced he was through with politics, for good. Friends offered mansions for him to rest in. Until January 1 he has his gubernatorial mansion at Albany. Said a colyumist, referring with admiration to the Smith campaign: "I'd rather be Smith than President...
...name of Alfred Emanuel Smith loomed mightier than ever last week. Not only was he elected Governor of New York for the fourth time by a plurality of some 250,000 votes, not only did he sweep a large part of the Democratic ticket into office with him, but he established himself as the most mentionable personality in his party until the 1928 presidential nomination is settled." Thus reported TIME, after the November elections of 1926. In 1928, a Democrat again became Governor of New York despite a national Republican landslide (as Smith had done in 1924). The victor...