Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was no definite Cabinet news (see p. 9). Inauguration news, too, was sparse. The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had." At Tipton, Iowa, one John W. Reeder, 92, hoped that the ceremony would not be too simple. He had asked to be, and been promised that he might be official holder of the Hoover hat on March...
...moment it seemed that this last scene would be too much for him. Ragged banners still flew in Albany, their legends, "Smith for President," mocked and cancelled by wind and sleet. Yet the Albanians were out to meet him in cheering, bomb-bursting thousands. Mayor John Boyd Thacher insisted on taking his arm through the crush, just as on triumphal occasions when the Brown Derby used to return as Governor-re-elect. Now he was President-reject...
...cheerfully accept the will of the majority. . . ."-John Raskob...
From his publicity-pulpit the Rev. John Roach Straton, of Manhattan, cried: "Victory was won by the preachers and by the God-honoring women of America. I pay tribute to one of the Joans of Arc of this campaign-Mabel Walker Willebrandt. I declare the feeling in my own heart when I say there has not been a finer piece of public service performed by anyone in modern days than that put across by Mrs. Willebrandt...
...House, Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland, leader of the "wet bloc," was re-elected and so were most of his most vigorous bloc-mates-New York's Sirovich, La Guardia, Black; Illinois' Sabath, Britten; Missouri's Dyer. But Representative S. Harrison White, wet Coloradoan, is out and Maryland's John Philip Hill, Leader Linthicum's predecessor, failed to get back into Congress. All this in the face of the best efforts of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment...