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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the organization of factions, groups, and delegations and the development of plots and counter-plots the campaigns of the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination at the mock convention next Tuesday are getting well under way. The various campaign managers and committees are working to secure support for Smith, Underwood, or Davis, and coalitions are already being planned to stampede the convention to a "dark horse" in case of a dead-lock. Conspiracy is rife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACTIONS ORGANIZE AS CONVENTION APPROACHES | 5/7/1924 | See Source »

...platform adopted at the Harvard Democratic convention next week may be Republican, or even Socialistic," was the astounding statement made to a CRIMSON reporter last night by a member of the mock Democratic National Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD DEMOCRATS MAY STEAL RIVALS' THUNDER | 5/6/1924 | See Source »

...clock on Tuesday evening, May 13, the first mock National Democratic Nominating Convention in the history of Harvard University will convene in New Lecture Hall. For weeks the Harvard Democratic National Committee has been working out the detailed plans for this event, which are now virtually complete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO HOLD DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION MAY 13 | 5/3/1924 | See Source »

...over," said Mr. MacDonald, in a mock tragic whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Parliament's Week: Apr. 14, 1924 | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

Under the circumstances, Harvard became liberal. The Gold Coast was reclaimed from river swamp and turned over to the newspapers, the Pudding branched out into mock trials, rowdy burlesques of classics now no better remembered than-their parodies, ultimately into musical skits (see Owen Wister) and so by the laws of gravity...

Author: By P. W. Hollister., | Title: Reviewer Finds "Who's Who" Another of Hasty Pudding's "Best Ever" Shows--Declares Comedy Is of Very High Order | 4/10/1924 | See Source »

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