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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They were a strangely assorted collection of campaigners, supporters and voting notables who worked, spoke, contributed and gestured for a common end. It should be remembered as perhaps the greatest coalition campaign in U. S. history, beginning with the revolutionary Hoover nomination. Unaided if not opposed by the leaders in the powerful States-Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and most of the farm States-the nomination virtually tore the G. O. P. apart and put it together again with new adjustments, relations and elements. Without a very genuine popular demand it could not have been done...
...fighting speech in Baltimore, a fighting speech in Newark, a fighting speech in Brooklyn-and then it was old home week-end in Manhattan for Governor Smith. It was the twenty-first time he had run for office. This was his greatest aspiration of all and a crucial factor was whether or not his own townsmen would give him enough votes to complete the foundation of his chance for the Presidency...
...first woman Congressman-at-large, the nearest thing to being elected Senator, which no woman has ever been. Her statewide string of women's clubs is the largest political machine ever built up by a woman in the U. S. It causes no end of worry to Senator Deneen, whom Mrs. McCormick cordially dislikes and thoroughly scorns, against whom she will doubtless campaign when he seeks re-election two years hence, but who had to put up with her this year for party reasons. Forgetting her anti-Hoover crusade at Kansas City, she worked as hard for the National...
Over the week-end and into the dawn of Election Day, the pulse of the nation quickened until it sounded like a machine-gun tattoo or a concentrated yip, yip, hooray...
Last week, King Amanullah put abrupt end to such rumors. Pridefully he pointed out that his European trip had cost $75,000, but that the gifts he received were worth...