Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wisconsin. All night long the Wisconsin Republicans wrangled in a state convention. The factions were the old-time LaFollette progressives and the followers of Walter Jodok Kohler, plumbing fixture tycoon, Hooverite nominee for Governor. At dawn the Kohlerites had forced an endorsement of Hooverism-the first time in 20 years that the Wisconsin Republicans have been "regular" in a presidential election...
...Oklahoma City, Nominee Smith said: "The other day ... a woman went in to the national [Republican] committee in Washington and meekly walked up to the man in charge and said: 'I want some literature on Governor Smith. I want the non-political kind.' And he brought her downstairs, put her in an automobile and took her over to an office where a paper is published called The Fellowship Forum which, for a number of years, has been engaged in this senseless, foolish, stupid attack upon the Catholic Church...
Chairman Work of the Republican National Committee protested: "If Governor Smith values the truth, he should withdraw the reckless innuendo that the Republican National Committee engages in religious propaganda...
Secretary Jardine of Agriculture took note of the Smith speech on farm relief at Omaha and said: "Either Governor Smith is grossly ignorant in the field of practical economics or is deliberately misrepresenting the truth. . . . Let no one be deceived...
...vice-president, and A. H. Kalish 2G, secretary. Weiss was prominent in undergraduate politics a few years ago when he organized the Harvard LaFollette Club, subsequently becoming president of that organization in 1924. Kalish has spent the summer campaigning in eastern Massachusetts with Mary D. Hapgood, Socialist candidate for Governor...