Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Weller (Rep.) of Maryland: "This will strengthen the President...
Senator Bruce of Maryland was the sole Democrat to vote for Senator Cummins. Borah, Gooding, Norbeck and Jones joined the insurgents in voting for Couzens. Senators Hiram Johnson of California and Capper of Kansas also joined the Couzens forces, who at their highest point polled 14 votes, compared with about 34 for Cummins and 36 for Smith on the later ballots...
...MARYLAND...
...voted the Farmor-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. On the seventh ballot all the insurgent group except Howell, Ladd and Norris voted for the Democratic candidate. On the eighth ballot, Ladd joined those voting for Smith-and Smith would have been elect-! had not Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland, a Democrat, voted for Senator Cummins...
...days later Senator Johnson made a speech to a post of the American Legion and referred to the action of Senator Bruce (Democrat) who voted with the Republicans to prevent the election of a Democrat as Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee (see page 3) : "This bird from Maryland flopped when all that was needed to elect Smith was his vote. . . . The promise of the average politician who uses fine words in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the people is like a rabbit sausage. Fifty-fifty- one horse and one rabbit. The people get the rabbit...