Word: emanuele
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...week the Roosevelt bandwagon, carrying no less than 231 pledged delegates, trundled into Massachusetts. There for the first time its progress was halted. Governor Roosevelt had been warned to keep out of the primary in Massachusetts on the ground that the State was still as fiercely loyal to Alfred Emanuel Smith as it was four years ago. Governor Roosevelt was persuaded to enter by blustering, self-confident James Curley, Mayor of Boston. Mayor Curley thought he saw a chance to ride a presidential winner and thereby become No. 1 Democrat of his State. Besides, Col. Edward Mandell House, quiet little...
...Gerli-Japan deal brought into prominence the Gerli silk business, largest in its line. The Gerli family was in the silk trade in Italy for years.? In 1883 Emanuel Gerli, present president of the firm, migrated to the U. S. For many years E. Gerli & Co. did a business of about 500 bales a year against its present volume...
...April 13 Alfred Emanuel Smith spoke at a Jefferson Day dinner in Washington. On April 18 Governor Roosevelt addressed Democrats at St. Paul. Mr. Smith and Governor Roosevelt are poles apart on some issues but on the Republican tariff their stand is apparently identical...
...ahead and name the others. Mr. Bragg named John Jacob Raskob. chairman of the Democratic National Committee ; William F. Kenny, contractor friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith; William Crapo Durant, onetime president of General Motors Corp.; General Motorsman Frederic John Fisher, and Michael J. Meehan, theatre ticket seller who rose to Wall Street power by riding Radio from $25 a share...
...their susceptibility to speeches like Bryan's "Cross of Gold," might a sudden Smith uprising stampede the Chicago convention away from Roosevelt. But that could not happen unless Roosevelt were blocked on the first few ballots, and the direction of the stampede would probably not be toward Alfred Emanuel Smith. His anti-Roosevelt outburst last week and the assurance of his presence on the floor at Chicago were less precursors of a sudden Smith earthquake than they were warning signals for a possible stroke of the freak that is political lightning...