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...went the speeches, occupying the better part of two long sessions of the convention. Colorado's Thompson, Nebraska's Hitchcock, Ohio's Pomerene, Texas' Jones were also named. Seconding speeches were intermingled with nominating speeches, handsome speeches with fiery, witty with dull, empty with honest...
...Smith list, making it 541½ first-ballot votes. With such pro-Smith States as Maryland, New Jersey, Wyoming and Vermont yet to be heard from, and reserve Smith strength at hand from at least two Favorite Sons (Ohio's Pomerene, Nebraska's Hitchcock), the rush for the brown derby counter seemed so well under way that Smith men tried to talk down their earlier talk of acclaiming Candidate Smith on the first ballot at Houston. It would look just as much like party harmony and less like a Smith stampede, they reasoned, if Favorite Sons should receive...
...Adding everything up, experts announced the standing of Democratic candidates and delegates, as of last weekend, as follows: Smith, 492; Reed, 36; George, 28; Hitchcock, 16; Ayres...
...musical comedy which harks back to the 1860's, and passes two acts flowing about in crinolines. The plot, as is usual, is not of great import, but what there is of it concerns the love of a Crinoline Girl for the Prince of Wales of that era. Raymond Hitchcock, who must date from at least 1860 himself, makes frantic and exceedingly long-winded attempts to inject humor into the proceedings. At times he succeeds admirably, but for the most part the humorous stretches are too long, and consequently far too thin...
...when college men, in their own or borrowed planes, will race for money. The race will be conducted under the auspices of the National Aeronautic Association with these judges: Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Reginald L. Brooks, Secretary of War for Aviation F. Trubee Davison, Thomas Hitchcock...