Word: houston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interview referred to was accorded to Writer Lecta Rider of the Houston Press in Mrs. Blair's room at the Hotel Warwick, on the morning of June 18. Mrs. Blair was having her hair curled. Writer Rider vouches for the accuracy of her report, which was published that afternoon and to which Mrs. Blair took no exception at the time. The Houston Press vouches for Water Rider's journalistic integrity. TIME joins the United Press in deploring misquotations, in viewing with alarm Mrs. Blair': "idiotic position...
...Senator is said to be in a SANITARIUM up north-and Frank Hampton his secretary continues to wire him that AL SMITH CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE NOMINATED. I think as soon as he learns of what happened at HOUSTON (and it was a plenty) that he will wire the parsons and the wimmen that it would be much better to have SMITH in the WHITE HOUSE than to have NEGRO DEPUTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA PLACING HANDCUFFS ON WHITE MEN AND TAKING THEM OFF TO THE PENETENTIARY TO SERVE TIME FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE VOLSTEAD ACT AND OTHER CRIMES...
After greeting Nominee Robinson in Albany, and with him patting "the donk" (baby, Houston, newborn jackass foal) Nominee Smith went to Manhattan to see after the new political machinery of the Democracy. He knew what he wanted...
Funds. In view of what was coming, the first announcement at next morning's meeting of the National Democratic Committee was not particularly significant. Jesse Holman Jones, retiring Director of Finance and "angel" of the Democracy the past four years, reported that the $84,000 Houston convention was all paid for and that a balance of some $200,000 remained for campaign expenses...
...Potent in the Smith background, financially, psychologically, is John Jacob Raskob, vice president of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., chairman of the finance committee of the General Motors Corp., "biggest U. S. business man." Mr. Raskob was one of Mrs. Smith's escort home from Houston. Last week Mr. Raskob's son, William F. Raskob II, was killed in a motor smash. Nominee Smith made straight for Centerville, Md., and attended the funeral at the Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church. Beside Nominee Smith walked Mr. & Mrs. Pierre du Pont...