Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asking you: I'm telling you!" Governor Fuller shouted back. When he said: "If the Republicans put over some candidate nominated in a back room at 2 o'clock in the morning and the Democrats nominate Al Smith, I believe Smith will be elected...
...chief change in the pre-convention situation took place in Massachusetts, one of the Big Three (the others are Pennsylvania, New York) whose Republican bosses want uninstructed delegations with which to control the Convention. In Massachusetts, Governor Alvin Tufts ("Peter Bond") Fuller revolted against Boss William Morgan Butler, refused to be an instructed delegate and told the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company that "the next President of the United States will be Herbert Hoover or Alfred E. Smith...
...Governor Fuller said: "If it has done you as much good to listen as it has me to deliver this, you're all feeling elegant right now." He was full of vim, having just returned from a Packard motor trip through Florida with golf at the stops. He was bustling about Massachusetts at a great rate, telling how the colleges should be run† getting after his Attorney-General for what looked like scalawaggery,** and booming other men so generously that in a speech to a large bevy of clubwomen he slipped into an absurdity. "I would like...
...every one knows, the Vice President of the United States must be 35 years old and Hero Lindbergh is only 26. Not without concern lest the Governor's Hooverism might upset the plans of more professional politicians, the Springfield Republican croaked: "Governor Fuller may try again. The list of potential candidates is not exhausted with his Lindbergh flop. He might fill the breach himself. With Lindbergh out, who but Fuller could insure victory...
...Died. Fuller Earle Callaway, 57, famed southern capitalist, cotton merchant, 5-and-10-cent store organizer; of heart trouble; in La Grange, Georgia...