Word: garfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman James Rudolph Garfield of the Resolutions Committee, whose glasses, thin straight hair and small white mustache make him almost indistinguishable from a dozen prominent G. 0. Politicians, began reading the platform...
...Hurley, stiffened when her father's name was mentioned for the first & only time during the convention. The Utah delegation applauded when a conference on bimetallism was promised. The oil states held a little parade when high oil tariffs were recommended. The house rang righteously with indignation when Chairman Garfield deplored the burgeoning kidnapping racket. Then the words "the 18th Amendment" were pronounced and the atmosphere electrified...
...guests, who filled 15.000 seats for the first time, had paid admission. It was reported that the Illinois delegation, sopping wet, had provided unused tickets for many a friend. Disorder in the gallery broke out almost as soon as Chairman Garfield started to read the plank. "BOOOOOO!" shouted the gallery. "We want Repeal...
When Chairman Garfield managed to finish his platform report, Chairman Snell steamrollered through a motion that debate on the Prohibition plank be limited to two hours. First speaker recognized was Senator Bingham...
Next speaker was Chairman Garfield. for the Administration's majority report plank. Again heckled, he remarked: "The great backlog of oak that gives heat to the home is not disturbed by the prattling of the kindling...