Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Additions to the Smith movement included...
Additions to the Smith movement included...
...advance guard is Thomas Taggart, 71, of Indiana. It was Taggart, Murphy and Brennan (acting on deathbed instructions from Sullivan) who pushed aside McAdoo and forced the nomination of Cox at the Democratic convention in 1920. The same forces compromised on John W. Davis in 1924, when the Smith movement failed. Mr. Taggart is now in ill health and resides quietly at French Lick, Ind., playing croquet with his grandchildren...
...Governor Smith is a man for whom I have profound admiration. He is undoubtedly the greatest State Governor we have had in half a century, and I admire his honesty on the prohibition question. I also believe, because he said it, that he would lead a movement to repeal the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment. Because of the large wet element in the Democratic party, I believe he would have greater difficulty in enforcing the amendment than Hoover would have...
Additions to the Smith movement included...