Word: ralstons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mentioned seven: Dr. A. A. Murphree, President of the University of Florida; Josephus Daniels; Senator Joseph T. Robinson; Senator Samuel Ralston; ex-Secretary of Agriculture Edwin T. Meredith; his own brother, Charles W. Bryan, Governor of Nebraska; William G. McAdoo. His speech lacked the old-time wonder-working power. The crowd was largely hostile; several times delegates interrupted. After every two or three sentences there was applause or hisses, cheers or heckling ?mostly the latter. Shortly after his time expired, Mr. Bryan gave up. As a political speech, his effort was inglorious...
...which tried members of the Party were bidden- Senators Lodge, Borah, Watson, Curtis, Warren, Brandegee and Representatives Tincher of Kansas and Sinott of Oregon. A guessing game was played- by the guests-the question being "Whom will the Democrats nominate?" Two of the guests guessed the same man, Senator Ralston...
...Indiana Convention acceded nominally to Mr. Ralston's request. It chose an uninstructed delegation to go to the convention. But Taggart will head it and it will go to Manhattan with Ralston in its heart...
Clinton W. Gilbert, famed Washington correspondent, author of The Mirrors of Washington, compared Senator Ralston and Calvin Coolidge...
...modesty is one of the virtues, Mr. Ralston has it over any other candidate who ever ran for the Presidency. There is a parlor game which consists in rating the qualities your friends possess. We might apply it to Presidential candidates. For modesty I should vote Ralston at 10 and Coolidge at 3. For ambition I should vote Coolidge at 10 and Ralston at 3. For honesty I should vote them both at 8, for I shouldn't give any one 10 in honesty. For character I should make them both high. For modernity I should give the edge...