Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Uzal H. McCarter, New Jersey Republican, Newark banker. Reason: "I met Governor Smith last night at dinner," and Prohibition...
Gifford Pinchot, independent Pennsylvania Republican, onetime (1923-27) Governor. Reason: Prohibition...
Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, who resigned as leader of the North Carolina Democracy and said he would vote for neither Smith nor Hoover, last week openly joined the anti-Smith Democrats. He repeated the gist of his pre-nomination statements: "I am profoundly convinced that the election of Governor Smith would be unfortunate alike to the party and the country." Reason: Tammany...
...American Federation of Labor has resolved upon a non-partisan position during the campaign, but when President William Green of the A. F. of L. addressed the New York convention last week, he said: "I am convinced that Governor Smith's speech of acceptance and his reference to the abuse of injunctions has made a deep impression, in every industrial state. . . . I am satisfied that, when they go to the polls, they will stand by those who stood by them in their hours of need...
...Nominee and for him all good Prohibitionists would work, hope, vote. One of Nominee Varney's managers quickly announced: "The position of the majority was that this election is not a bona fide contest over the prohibition question, but a fake contest between the modification program of Governor Smith, on one side, and continued nullification by the Republican Party, on the other side...