Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolutionary effort, The Appeal to Reason left no record of accomplishment. But an incident of its career was to prove more important than the paper itself. To Girard in 1915, from Manhattan where he had been a reporter on the Socialist Call, went an energetic young Jew named Emanuel Julius. He got a job on the Appeal under its Editor Fred D. Warren, revelled in his new work. But with the approach of the War the Appeal began to lose its audience. Interest in Socialism was becoming unfashionable, and the anti-Catholic Menace, somewhat imitative of the Appeal in format...
...captured all the convention machinery. He had confidently predicted victory for Governor Roosevelt on the first ballot. Yet since dawn that morning three ballots had come & gone at the Stadium and the Roosevelt nomination was unharvested. Jim Farley's plans had been stalled by the stubborn enmity of Alfred Emanuel Smith and a half-dozen Favorite Sons...
...happy." Most startling felicitation came from insurgent Republican Senator Hiram Johnson of California, no friend to President Hoover. He was "thrilled" by the Roosevelt plane ride, admired the Roosevelt acceptance speech, but did not go so far as to say he would support the Roosevelt candidacy. Neither did Alfred Emanuel Smith, who had "no comment" to make...
...week Speaker John Nance Garner nervously paced the roof garden of the Washington Hotel, in which he makes his home. He had just released his Texas and California delegates at the Chicago convention to throw the Presidential nomination to Governor Roosevelt in return for the Vice-Presidential nomination. Alfred Emanuel Smith had tried to talk with him over long distance but the Speaker had refused to take the call. As he walked up & down alone, his cigar made a nasturtium-colored spot in the darkness...
...Myself."? The personality of Alfred Emanuel Smith continued to dominate the Chicago scene. On his arrival from Manhattan, his first interview was as crisp and crackly as any he had ever given during the 1928 campaign. Excerpts...