Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator New was faced in the primaries by Albert J. Beveridge, Senator (1899-1911,) and Arthur R. Robinson, a young Indianapolis lawyer. Beveridge won in the primary, but the New men helped to weaken his position. As a result Beveridge was defeated in the election by his Democratic opponent Samuel M. Ralston. In 1924 there was no senatorial election in Indiana, but Ed. Jackson with the support of the Beveridgites and the Ku Klux Klan managed to squeeze into the Governorship...
What the pupil did then is not recorded, but the young teacher, whose name was Samuel Moffet Ralston, began to study law. By and by he became a lawyer and pretty soon he entered politics- the old school of politics, the sams school from which the late Thomas R. Marshall was graduated, an evenminded school of men, not given to demagoguery, fierce invective and cheap chicanery. Conservative and thoroughly regular- that was the old school...
This is the story of Samuel M. Ralston's rise in politics. His de- parture from it was equally dignified and calm. Since early in September he had been ill with uremic poisoning. He recognized that he had not long to live; so he bade his family and friends good-by last week at his bedside in his Indianapolis home and one morning slipped into unconsciousness. Twenty-two hours later he died...
Gompers. A memorial session for Samuel Gompers was held at which his associates paid him tribute. Said President Green, his successor: "As Washington was the father of his country, so was Samuel Gompers the father of the American Federation of Labor. As Lincoln was the savior of his country, so was he the savior of the Federation in the many crises through which it passed. . . . His soul goes marching...
...Died. Samuel M. Ralston, 67, junior U. S. Senator from Indiana, onetime (1913-17) Governor of Indiana) at Indianapolis, of uremic poisoning. (See Page 6, THE CONGRESS...