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Short, swart, smiling "Cousin Charley" was not there. After poking things into and taking things out of his desk at the Capitol in Washington, he proceeded to Providence, R. I., to stay with his darkly handsome daughter, Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight. Mrs. Knight's father-in-law, C. Prescott Knight, took the Nominee out on his yacht to watch sailing races in Narragansett...
...brown turbanite in the parade. Lightly as the Bosses appraise the worth of women in politics, they saw to it that Houston need yield nothing to Kansas City in the number, the beauty, the distinction of its lady delegates. Mabel Walker Willebrandts were scarce, but the Bosses could outmatch Leona Curtis Knight, daughter of mere Vice-Presidential Curtis, with Emily Smith Warner, favorite daughter of the Brown Derby himself. Delegate Warner was not unbefriended. Her mother, husband,* sister, three brothers, many in-laws, were among the watched and watching observers. But she missed her father, sent him cheering messages...
...Missouri's Governor Sam A. Baker were all placed in nomination. But up got Senator Borah, out boomed the great Borah voice, up jumped the Kansans in a repetition of their Curtis demonstration the night before. The four other nominees withdrew. The Curtis delegate-daughter, handsome Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight of Rhode Island, seconded her father in 17 words after a seconding speech by New Jersey's (Senator) Walter Evans Edge, who removed the last trace of competition...
...watched for as the man slated to place Candidate Lowden in nomination. Delegate (Mrs.) Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter of the late famed G. 0. Politician Mark Hanna, said she had accepted the honor of seconding Delegate Glenn's motion. Other notable daughters were to be present-Mrs. Leona Knight of Providence, R. I., to cast at least one vote for her father, Candidate Curtis of Kansas; Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University (he, too, is a delegate), to follow the lead of National Committeeman Charles D. Hilles in trying to "draft-Coolidge"; President...
...Miss Leona Marie Esch of Cleveland said that the only way to beat the criminal was to "load the dice," i.e. stiffen the law. "He gambles with the law," said Miss Esch, "playing three to one he never will be caught, two to one he never will be convicted, and then playing a last chance [that] he will never be sent to a state penal institution...