Word: nominateed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In that year, John William attended the State Convention. It was decided to nominate him for Congress. John William agreed to accept, provided only that his father, then retired from the political arena, would not object. A telegram was dispatched to the elder Davis. Two telegrams came in reply. Both...
Many of the McAdoo delegates understood that spirit. It was something near insanity or genius. It was only such a spirit that could hold 400 or 500 delegates bound firmly to a lost cause through eight sweltering days, through 100 torturing ballots. The wiseacre bosses of the North-well used...
In Public Hall at Cleveland, the same place where three weeks earlier the Republican convention hissed and booed the 28 delegates from Wisconsin, the Conference for Progressive Political Action opened its Convention. The same group which the unshakable 28 had represented was there, this time as heroes and leaders; for...
New Jersey sent up John E. Matthews to nominate Governor Silzer. New Jersey started a jaded parade, followed by New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. A pretty girl on the platform turned round and round, holding aloft the Governor's picture; another waved a flag; a glee club yowled intermittently. It...
Virginia sent up her senior Senator, Claude A. Swanson, to nominate her junior Senator, Carter Glass, former Secretary of the Treasury. For 20 minutes, Virginia and New York maintained a languid march. Then Governor Trinkle seconded Mr. Glass with the declaration: "No man can point the finger of scorn at...