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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...
Chairman James R. Garfield of the resolutions committee arrived from Washington to be besieged immediately by a swarm of newshawks. In the room at the Congress where his father received the choice which made him the 20th President, Chairman Garfield neatly dodged all reference to the President's Prohibition platform desire with an agility such as he once used when Secretary of the Interior in the Roosevelt "tennis Cabinet." He could not "speak for the President," but could speak for "responsible Republicans." He hurriedly added that Mr. Hoover was a responsible Republican...
Platform Carpenter. To head the Chicago convention's resolutions committee which will carpenter the platform President Hoover selected James Rudolph Garfield, 66-year-old son of the 20th President of the U. S.* This tall, solemn, white-haired Cleveland lawyer served as Secretary of the Interior under Roosevelt, stood by him "at Armageddon...
...Cheney, D. C. Clos, Roland Cooper, R. R. Covell, J. C. Cowdin, T. L. Dammann, H. S. Derrickson, J. R. Divens, R. A. Dow, G. T. Dudman, R. F. Dur, R. G. Durham, S. S. Durry, R. L. Eastland, Lawrence Edmonds, J. C. Ewer, T. B. Gannett, I. McD. Garfield, R. f. Gillette, J. C. Haggott, J. D. Hague, J. B. Hamblet, W. A. Harken, e. N. Hartley, D. W. Haycock, R. H. Heburn, Fisher Howe, II. F. W. Jones, K. R. Kimball, R. M. Leighton, D. W. Lewis, S. H. Lewis, F. R. Littlefield, T. F. Locke...