Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parched, hilly Hinsdale links, near Chicago, a company of overheated golfers drove, brassied, mashied their many balls. The mi- rage that led them on was the Western Amateur title. They challenged one another's right to continue the quest and in the end Albert Seckel of Chicago and Harrison R. ("Jim-mie") Johnston of St. Paul played on alone...
When order was called again, it became apparent that this time the leaders were not going to bungle into another 103-vote imbroglio. John W. Davis, Alfred E. Smith, Cordell Hull, Frank L. Polk, Thomas J. Walsh, Pat Harrison and the McAdoo leaders had consulted and agreed. At once Harry Flaherty of Nebraska rose and nominated Governor Charles W. Bryan, adding the 14th& to 13 already nominated. One ballot was taken. There were many complimentary votes for favorite sons. But the delegates were aweary, aweary; "they wished that they were dead." To save another roll call, they changed their votes...
...what it meant to be a candidate. First, the deluge of the press. Then the deluge of supporters-the delegate from Porto Rico who had voted for Davis 33 times in San Francisco, and 103 times in Manhattan, etc. Soon the magnates of the party descended -Josephus Daniels, Pat Harrison, Governor Ritchie. Then the telegrams-from A. Mitchell Palmer, from 'Senator McKellar, from General Bliss, from Mr. Associate Justice Butler...
...Convention at Charleston had balloted 57 times before splitting over the slavery issue, after which the southern delegates withdrew and the northern wing nominated Douglas on the second ballot. In 1840, the Whig Convention at Harrisburg had taken "many, many" ballots ? nobody counted them?before nominating W. H. Harrison. But even if the number of ballots at these Conventions had been as great, the endurance record would have been less, for in the earlier days there were fewer states. At the Harrisburg Convention, for example, 22 states voted, as compared with 48 states and 6 "territories"? at Manhattan...
...only real advance made was in casualties among a few favorite sons: Ferris of Michigan dropped out on the 8th ballot; Silzer of New Jersey, on the 9th; Harrison of Mississippi, on the 15th; Brown of New Hampshire, on the 16th; Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska, on the 20th, al- though he got a handful of votes from the 52nd on; Davis of Kansas dwindled out on the 51st; Cox of Ohio practically disappeared on the 65th; Ralston, after making a brave run in the 50's, dropped out for a time. Seventeen states never altered their vote during...