Word: floridas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, daughter of the late Great Commoner. She has her father's face and something of his frame. Modern conditions required her to substitute practical thinking for the passionate oratory that might have been her inherited forte. Long before the Smith tariff declaration at Louisville, she found it necessary to declare for Protection, which her father fought so long. Florida has changed since the Commoner first invested in its real estate and conducted prayer meetings there. Northern business men and methods opened a new field for northern political ideas and attitudes. Ruth Bryan Owen...
...greatest electoral majority ever-444 to 87. The Harding landslide of 1920 was considered remarkable when it chipped Tennessee and Oklahoma off the Solid South. The Hoover avalanche included both these States and also swept away the Democracy's corner anchors, old Virginia and North Carolina, fruitful Florida, vast Texas. The Hoover-Smith ratio of popular votes, 17 to 12, was smaller than the Harding-Cox (16 to 9) or the Coolidge-Davis-LaFollette (15 to 8 to 5) but the electoral margin was such as to suggest that unless issues develop to split the Republican Party within itself...
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...Florida 71, Sewanee...
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