Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walsh: "The Secretary will call the roll of states for the nth ballot...
...roll call proceeds. Next morning the Convention opened promptly an hour and 10 minutes late. The roll call proceeded...
...roll call continued...
...hope that a few ballots might be taken before the platform, and hence the Ku Klux Klan issue, came before the delegates. The Anti-McAdooites wanted to adjourn for the day. Senator Walsh called twice for "Ayes" and "Noes" but could not decide. A roll call was taken and adjournment was made until the next morning by vote of 559 to 513. This was the first defeat of the McAdoo leaders; but conspiring against them were a prize fight and other diversions which the delegates looked forward to that evening...
...Alaska, District of Columbia," he went on, "Hawaii, Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, Canal Zone." After each name the delegates sighed with relief. After two and a half days the roll call was over. Sixteen candidates had had themselves nominated. McAdoo had been seconded eleven times, Smith seven times, Underwood and Glass twice each, Silzer, Ritchie. John W. Davis and Brown once each. Two and half days had been worn away in oratory and Fahrenheit heat, interspersed with soul-exhausting demonstrations of as much enthusiasm as was thought to be politically effective. Yet an end had been achieved?not the nomination...