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Amateurs. Candidate Willkie was soon hard put to it to find new ways of welcoming newsworthy recruits. President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College came out for him. So did President Ernest Hopkins of Dartmouth, Nobel Prizewinners Dean George Whipple of Rochester University, Dr. George Minot of Harvard. ("I am very much pleased that this type of citizen is coming out for me. These men represent the very best in our intellectual and social life. . . .") So did President Charles Seymour of Yale ("a Democrat since Woodrow Wilson...
Angrily, sourly, in grave disunion, the Convention adjourned. And in the swift days after the grunting delegates entrained for home, the effects showed as clearly as Mr. Roosevelt could have wished. Demo cratic lame ducks Holt of West Virginia and Burke of Nebraska announced for Wendell Willkie; so did Booth Tarkington, Irvin S. Cobb; so did the Louisiana sugar planters, and all the men who bolted Roosevelt...
...RUSH D. HOLT Washington...
...Cross supplies for refugees) to proceed through belligerent waters to Bordeaux was amended before passage. The amendment-suggested by Senator Clark of Missouri and written by Senator Pittman-was aimed to prevent other similar ships from running blockades or supplying other than Red Cross materials to belligerents. However, Senator Holt in his speech, made before the amendment was proposed, made no reference to desiring any amendment to the resolution-he objected to it simply on the ground that it might involve...
WHITE WATER AND BLACK MAGIC - Richard C. Gill - Holt...