Word: jouett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shouse v. Walsh, The first fight scheduled for the convention was on the permanent chairmanship. Originally picked to preside was Jouett Shouse, able chief at the Washington headquarters. Roosevelt supporters had agreed to his election and the Governor was supposed to have sanctioned him. Then it was announced that Governor Roosevelt's man for the chair was Montana's grey-grim Senator Walsh. Mr. Shouse had been ditched, it was explained, because he did not favor the Roosevelt candidacy. Quickly the anti-Roosevelt battalions rallied to Mr. Shouse's support, charging that Governor Roosevelt was guilty of bad faith...
Stop Roosevelt? Chicago started fill ing up with Democrats even before it was emptied of Republicans. "We'll put on a show that will make the Republican shindig look like child's play," boasted Jouett Shouse, Washington headquarters director and candidate for the convention's permanent chairmanship. What promised to make the Democratic show thoroughly exciting was the paramount question: "Can Franklin Delano Roosevelt be stopped short of the nomination...
...Chicago to arrange for the June convention. At the meeting Roosevelt men were about evenly arrayed against anti-Roosevelt men. To avert a schism a compromise was effected whereby Kentucky's Senator Barkley, a Roosevelt supporter, was "recommended" to the convention as temporary chairman and keynoter. Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee at Washington headquarters, was "commended" as permanent chairman. A Raskobite, Mr. Shouse has spent the last three years keeping his party alive and active in opposing the Hoover Administration. To him more than to any other individual has been credited the Democratic success...
Opening this evening with the registration of delegates at 7.30 o'clock, the mock convention of the Harvard Democratic Club will meet in the New Lecture Hall to hear the keynote address by Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to adopt a platform, and to nominate candidates for president and vice-president...
...After a table-pounding, all day session in Chicago, a sub-committee of 23 Democratic National Committeemen chose Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, Roosevelt supporter, to be keynoter at the national convention. Jouett Shouse, rival for the position, was recommended for convention chairmanship...