Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President read his guests a speech on Republican family matters. Then he read a postscript. The postscript said...
Kansas City Chosen. After the Coolidge and Hughes statements, the Republican National Committee's choice of a convention city narrowed swiftly. City-boosters filled the Willard Hotel in Washington with their placards and overtures. San Francisco, Kansas City and Detroit were likeliest to please when the field of candidates for the nomination seemed reduced to Messrs. Hoover, Lowden & Dawes and Senator Curtis of Kansas...
...Committee bridled and said it would not be led by the nose. Supporters of Committeeman William Henry Crocker of California obliged Chairman Butler to wait until the 20th ballot before they joined the draft-Coolidge delegates and the flatter-the-farmer delegates in obedience to Chairman Butler. The Republican National Convention will meet at "the heart of America," 1,089 delegates strong, on June...
...Curtis. The only Republican prior to Senator Willis who had announced his candidacy was short, swart, smiling Charles Curtis, the Indian-blooded Senator from Kansas (TIME, Nov. 7). Mr. Curtis last week stuck to his job as G. O Party leader in the Senate, letting circumstances alone change his boom from that of a remote compromise candidate to that of the second man in line for the support of the present Administration. The first boom buttons of the season appeared: "Curtis for President...
Odds. Wall Street began laying bets on the Republican nomination. Last week's odds against: Hoover, 8 to 5; Lowden, 5 to 2; Dawes, 5 to 2; Butler, 7 to 1; Willis, 10 to 1; Longworth, 10 to 1. Against Democratic Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith's election, odds were quoted...