Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representing President Hoover at New York State's Republican convention at Albany last week was not Ohio's little red-faced professor-politician, Chairman Simeon Davison Fess of Republican National Committee, who had keynoted for the Administration at party assemblies in Ohio and Massachusetts. Instead. Mr. Hoover's No. I Cabinet man, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, citizen of New York, was on hand. Statesman Stimson had served President Hoover like a good lawyer at the London Naval Conference. In much the same legalistic way at Albany he defended and expounded the record of his chief in a keynote...
...down" was brilliantly executed last year by Britain's great irrepressible Conservative, Winston Spencer Churchill, when Hearst Anglophobia was approaching one of its fever periods. Mr. Churchill crossed the ocean, tarried in Canada and in British Columbia, then made a special pilgrimage to the Hearst ranch in San Simeon, Calif. (TIME, Sept. 30, 1929). There he dined nightly with the Anglophobe, addressed him gently of England, her geniality, her pacifism, her friendliness to the U. S. When Mr. Churchill felt that the Anglophobe was at last quieted, he journeyed to Manhattan, ate a slice of Laborite Ramsay MacDonald...
...onetime (1909-11 & 1911-13) Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio. A few years later he was making if1 and 2^ envelopes and newspaper wrappers for the government on a four-year contract. He also prospered in Oklahoma oil. Then he retired and began his National University Society, persuading Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, now national chairman of the G. O. P., to be board chairman. At first the 17-day sessions were addressed by economics professors. One day President Marchand had to fill a lecturer's place because of illness. He and others directly acquainted with business have been...
...Senator Norris, a Dry, will face Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, Wet conservative Democrat, once (1911-23) potent Senator from Nebraska who vainly led the Wilson fight for Senate ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. Would the national G.O. P. organization in Washington support Senator Norris as the party nominee? Senator Simeon Davison Fess, Republican National Committee chairman, said it would. The White House, in a well-muffled voice, said it would not, spoke of Senator Norris as a "traitor." To oppose Republican Governor Arthur J. Weaver, renominated. Democrats chose Charles Wayland ("Brother") Bryan, onetime (1923-25) Governor of Nebraska...
...Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio, brand-new chairman of the Republican National Committee, last week tied the G. O. P. up tight to Prohibition. Meanwhile the Democratic party seemed to grow wetter and wetter...