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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blackboards, positive claims were made with caution. At 7:15 p. m. Pacific time, about the moment that Executive Editor Swope of the arch-Democratic New York World was handing a yellow slip to a reporter, conceding the election, the Hoover quotation at Palo Alto was only 206 electoral votes. The total popular vote was even at three million for each nominee...
Fifteen minutes later, Palo Alto quoted 251 electoral votes. With great care, they had added New York's 45. Not until 8:43 p. m. (11:43 Eastern time) did they chalk up Tennessee, Wisconsin and Iowa for a total...
...survived. But in New Jersey, Wet Democratic Edward I. Edwards fell before mild-faced Hamilton F. Kean. In Montana, bitter was the battle and sweet the victory for famed radical Democrat Burton K. Wheeler. But in West Virginia bitter was the battle and bitter the defeat of War Hero M. M. Neely by Republican Henry D. Hatfield...
...neither 1) old, his age was 42; 2) inefficient, he had helped his concern to succeed; 3) dishonest, nor 4) unwanted. Having succeeded in business, during a quarter-century of sedulous attention to it, he is now free to go the remaining steps to the top in Y. M. C. A. work, for contemporaneously with his personal expansion in business he had grown in wisdom and understanding and position in the Association...
Thus Fred W. Ramsey became president of the National Council, assuming nominal leadership of the Y. M. C. A., which has a U. S. property value of circa $200,000,000. And, finally, he will be ready on Jan. 1, 1929, to take the General Secretaryship of the Association...