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...mother, attended St. Mary's Convent. Interviewed about the discovery, Nominee Curtis said: "I learned for the first time only a few years ago that I had been baptized a Roman Catholic. . . . My mother died, you know, when I was very young. ... I was brought up a good Methodist and that is my faith...
...sharp fight, too. Dan Moody, young Governor of Texas, sat with Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Beside them were two Wilson Cabinet men, Josephus Daniels and Carter Glass. Opposing, sat truculent young Senator Tydings of Maryland, arch Senator Edwards of New Jersey, solid Senator Wagner of New York and other Wets. Hovering near were Anti-Saloon Leaguers; Captain William H. Stayton of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; many a busybody, many a crank. Sebastian Spering Kresge, 5-and-10-cent man, was there, presumably to see that the Anti-Saloon League was mak-ing good...
...logic" of the Robinson nomination was, of course: that he is Dry, Methodist, Southern; that he matches Nominee Curtis for attracting the farm vote; that his nomination was endorsed by most Democratic Senators, potent in their home territories; that his warm, rugged personality and impressive party record bolster the ticket...
...many as 500 anxious women attended prayer-meetings during the week at Houston, to beseech their God to prevent the Smith nomination. After the nomination and the Smith telegram denouncing Prohibition, the anti-Smith movement was given somewhat more definite form. Preachermen, including Bishop James Cannon Jr. (Methodist Episcopal) and the Rev. Arthur J. Barton (Baptist), called for a Dry rally at Asheville, N. C., next week and for a "National Jacksonian Democratic Convention" on Aug. 7 at Richmond, Va. Observers doubted that these gatherings, if held, would become any more significant than the proposed national convention of the Prohibition...
...various corners ot the U. S. miscellaneous gatherings occurred. On Star Island, off New Hampshire, the Unitarian Young People's Religious Union met, talked, prayed. In Chautauqua, N. Y., the educational conference of the Young Men's Christian Association. In Chicago, the world service commission of the Methodist Church. Elsewhere, others...