Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballot: Smith, 849?; George, 55½; Reed, 52; Hull, 50?; Jones, 43; Watts of South Carolina, 18; Harrison of Mississippi, 8½; Woollen, 7; Donahey of Ohio, 5; Ayres, 3; Pomerene, 3; Bilbo of Mississippi, 2½; Thompson, 2; not voting...
Unity. To make plain that the party stood united and that he would be no sulk-in-tent champion, Missouri's white-crested Senator James A. Reed followed Mr. Davis with a cry for "every Democrat in the United States" to support Nominee Smith "until the last ballot is counted on election night." True, this Reed speech preceded the convention's choice of a vice president. But after Nominee Robinson was chosen, Senator Reed's congratulations contained an honest ring...
...logical" candidate and eventually all were agreed. They could not have Senator Barkley of Kentucky because he had made speeches for Anti-Saloon League pay. They could not have Representative Hull of Tennessee for a similar reason. Evans Woollen, Indiana banker, was too little known. White-crested Senator Reed of Missouri scarcely figured; he had been so vociferously eager. William Randolph Hearst had sent a message recommending Major George L. Berry of Tennessee. But, good man though Major Berry was, no word from Mr. Hearst would bear weight at a Smith-controlled convention. Besides, though Mr. Hearst said...
Gore. The laborious effort of Senator James A. Reed to get nominated at the convention took a surprising turn when onetime (1907-21) Senator Thomas Pryor Gore of Oklahoma stood up to second. Mr. Gore is blind but Mr. Gore is cheerful. Excerpts from the Gore speech: "Four years ago the Republican Party went to New England to pick a candidate. This year they have to go to old England." "Republicans already have begun to sing 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.'" "Mr. Hoover went too far and stayed too long." "Let us all make up, no matter...
...Elizabeth Marbury & Carl Reed) found...