Word: indianas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whom Cleveland had not seen since 1924 when her new Public Hall needed no WPA renovation and Calvin Coolidge was nominated. C. Bascom Slemp from Virginia, David A. Reed from Pennsylvania, Ralph E. Williams from Oregon, Walter F. Brown from nearby Toledo, Jim Watson over the border from Indiana, Charles G. Dawes from Chicago, came trooping in. So did the Elephant's ladies, Alice Longworth from Cincinnati, Ruth Hanna [McCormick] Simms, now from New Mexico, Ruth Baker Pratt from New York. Crowds seethed in hotel lobbies. Fat men sweated in hotel rooms. Newshawks scuffled after rumors. Whiskey went down...
Through a fantastic pre-convention week Hamilton drove a bandwagon. Nothing was news unless it bore the name of Landon. A majority of Pennsylvania delegates would plump for Landon. All the Old Guard politicians were conspiring in vain to ''Stop Landon." Indiana's State Convention picked its delegates, tagged them Landon. Emporia's sage, beaming William Allen White, and troops of Kansans roamed the streets wearing yellow sunflowers inscribed "Landon." The Texas delegation came out, all over again, for Landon...
Though Messrs. Baker, Douglas & Wolman had chosen the burden of their platform from the current and historic tenets of both major parties, it was soon evident they had pleased neither. No Republican leader spoke up to praise them. On behalf of the Administration, Senator Minton of Indiana sneered: "My idea of a platform would be one to repudiate Newton Baker rather than the New Deal...
...parade of visitors past his desk that fact was emphasized. He confabbed with Senator Wagner who will write his 1936 platform; with John L. Lewis, backer of Labor's Nonpartisan League to re-elect Roosevelt, Democratic Chairman Farley, Governors Davey of pivotal Ohio and McNutt of pivotal Indiana, with AAAd-ministrator Davis who lately returned from a trip to Europe to begin a grand tour of the farm states to bind farmers to the New Deal...
...year the blazing red thatch of Norman Ryan kept cropping up in a series of holdups and bank robberies throughout Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota. In 1924 he was trapped in the Minneapolis Post Office, extradited to Canada, sentenced to life imprisonment and 30 lashes. The flogging was later canceled...