Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more compelling than any of these, the Springfield Republican, a Bible to many Republicans, issued a fiat, citing 16 reasons. The last day approached, the next-to-last day arrived, and that evening Candidate Hoover did it-authorized the filing of his name to fight Senator Watson for Indiana's delegates as he was already fighting Senator Willis for Ohio...
...sense, Senator Watson's "candidacy" for the Republican nomination is even more curious than the Willis phenomenon. Senator Watson's reputation is extremely unsavory. The Springfield Republican's 16 reasons for a Hoover campaign in Indiana were references to 16 members of the Watson political crew who have been indicted for crookery in the past four years. But, unlike pompous Senator Willis, easy-going Senator Watson has no pretensions beyond those of a "favorite son." His game is simply to herd the Indiana delegates for delivery to his good friend Vice President Dawes or for barter with...
...suppose that Candidate Hoover was beckoned, pushed, coaxed or ordered into Indiana by Republican newspapers or by his own disapproval of the Watson regime, would, however, be foolish. More and more a political technologist, he did not enter Indiana until convinced by Publisher Oscar G. Foellinger of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel that there really was a chance of winning 17 or more Indiana delegates from Senator Watson. The Indiana primary law provides that whosoever wins a majority of the delegates, wins all, and Indiana's delegates total...
...Woollen. So quietly that citizens of other States scarcely heard him, Banker Evans Woollen of Indianapolis formalized his candidacy for the Democratic nomination by filing for the Indiana primary...
...addition to the moving pictures of last fall's Harvard-Yale and Harvard- Indiana football games, a reel of the track meet held last summer between the Harvard-Yale and Oxford-Cambridge forces will be shown, it was announced yesterday by the committee. The rest of the entertainment will consist of music by Roy Lamson '29 and his Harvardians, a double quartet of the musical clubs, and the specialty act which K. A. Perry '28 gave on the Instrumental Club tour this winter. It has been decided to give favors this year as well as the usual refreshments...