Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson was for Mr. Smith and so really was Mr. Jones. Governors, Senators and Bosses steamed into town and, following the withdrawal of Maryland's Ritchie, the opposition to Smith ebbed steadily. Georgia's George, Tennessee's Hull, and Mississippi's Harrison declined to be sheer "anti's." Arkansas' Robinson said his delegates were free. So did Ayres of Kansas. Young Governor Moody of Texas refused to lead the dry bloc. Indiana offered to shift to Smith after one ballot for Banker Evans Woollen. Ohio's Newton Diehl Baker, long a Smith endorser...
There were two politically significant interviews during the pre-convention Smith week: 1) Atlee Pomerene, favorite son to whom the Ohio Democracy had pledged its delegates, called on Candidate Smith in Manhattan the day after Governor Ritchie of Maryland withdrew his candidacy. Observers concluded that Candidate Pomerene had offered to withdraw too, if and when desired...
...outdone by her politically active sister, Manhattan's Langhorne came last week to Houston. No scion of a Virginian First Family, no Maryland Ritchie or Bruce, held her allegiance; she marched in the parade of the Brown Derby...
...discuss business, the business of marketing musical instruments, from morning to noon and to amuse themselves throughout the rest of the day. Some of their frivolities were to be of a conventional nature. They were instructed thus-"As to entertainment, DON'T FORGET Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, in line ... for president, will be principal speaker at the annual banquet. You will have the pleasure of hearing Professor John Erskine, president of the Juilliard School of Music . . . distinguished author of The Private Life of Helen of Troy...
...House let the Senators fight it out, this session, and a long fight it was. California's Johnson introduced the bill in the early Spring. Utah's Smoot aided Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden, first indirectly, then directly, in delaying the debate. Maryland's Bruce and Tydings and Tennessee's McKellar helped the Arizonans too. But it was the orotund Ashurst and the dogged Hayden who, with desks stacked high with time-consuming documents, talked and talked and talked the bill to a standstill last week...