Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wondering if they had strayed by mistake into the Berkeley or the Savoy, guests followed host & hostess to the promenade deck, sat down in wicker chairs. Proudly, Commander Burney told them the R-100 is the world's largest dirigible, with a hull as big as many an ocean liner...
...Tennessee does not offer the name of this great Democrat as a sectional candidate. . . . He is a national figure . . ."? Harvey H. Hannah nominating Tennessee's Hull...
...ballot: Smith, 849?; George, 55½; Reed, 52; Hull, 50?; Jones, 43; Watts of South Carolina, 18; Harrison of Mississippi, 8½; Woollen, 7; Donahey of Ohio, 5; Ayres, 3; Pomerene, 3; Bilbo of Mississippi, 2½; Thompson, 2; not voting...
...this way and now that, with Boss Olvaney and other Tammanyites as polite judges. But there was only one "logical" candidate and eventually all were agreed. They could not have Senator Barkley of Kentucky because he had made speeches for Anti-Saloon League pay. They could not have Representative Hull of Tennessee for a similar reason. Evans Woollen, Indiana banker, was too little known. White-crested Senator Reed of Missouri scarcely figured; he had been so vociferously eager. William Randolph Hearst had sent a message recommending Major George L. Berry of Tennessee. But, good man though Major Berry...
...Wilson was for Mr. Smith and so really was Mr. Jones. Governors, Senators and Bosses steamed into town and, following the withdrawal of Maryland's Ritchie, the opposition to Smith ebbed steadily. Georgia's George, Tennessee's Hull, and Mississippi's Harrison declined to be sheer "anti's." Arkansas' Robinson said his delegates were free. So did Ayres of Kansas. Young Governor Moody of Texas refused to lead the dry bloc. Indiana offered to shift to Smith after one ballot for Banker Evans Woollen. Ohio's Newton Diehl Baker, long a Smith endorser...