Word: patting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JAMES M. COX?1920 Nominator ? Hon. James G. Johnson (Ohio) Seconders?Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart (Ky.) Senator Pat Harrison (Miss...
...National Convention. The meeting of the Committee was to choose a temporary chairman, the so-called keynoter for the Democratic Convention. Each aspirant for the nomination naturally wanted a key-note speaker favorable to him. As compromises between the several factions, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi were the chief possibilities. The McAdoo group amicably agreed with the Underwood-Smith group in the choice of Mr. Harrison...
...next President of the United States"?the words came naturally to Mr. Harrison. They flowed from his tongue without a second's hesitation when he heard that he had been chosen as temporary Chairman of the Democratic Convention. He is a natural born partisan, and his name is Pat...
Unfortunately, his name is not Patrick. "Pat" is all the Congressional Directory says. But he was christened "Byron Patton" in the Methodist Church. After he left college he was a pitcher on a semiprofessional baseball team. Since then he has spent most of his time "pitching bean balls"* at the Republican Party...
...Berengaria (Cunard) : Helen Wills, U. S. woman tennis champion; Arthur Hammerstein and his wife, Dorothy Dalton; Pat Sullivan, originator of the famed cinema cat "Felix;" Dr. J. T. Dorrance, Campbell Soup President; Dr. A. Hamilton Rice, South American explorer and Mrs. Rice, onetime widow of George D. Widener; A. J. Horlick, Malted Milk President; Mrs. Rebecca West, authoress...