Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown Derby - Parson M. Abbott, David F. Supple, Edward W. Cahill -whose strategy was to depend on old loyalties rather than new issues. Meantime the Garner candidacy was backed by three potent Californians - William Gibbs McAdoo, William Randolph Hearst, Will Rogers. The onetime Secretary of the Treasury, heading the slate of Garner delegates, actively campaigned while Publisher Hearst and Funnyman Rogers boomed...
...Massachusetts. He lost not only every single one of the State's 36 convention votes but also an incalculable amount of national prestige. The popular Smith margin was 3-to-1. Mayor Curley could not even carry his own Boston for Mr. Roosevelt. Where Senator Walsh topped the slate of Smith delegates-at-large with 153,303 votes, the Governor's son James was high man on the Roosevelt slate with only 56,480. Few observers had anticipated a Smith defeat but fewer had expected the bandwagon candidate to get such a downright drubbing...
...record to date of this year's council is a round zero. It has started with a clean slate, and kept it clean. The collection from Stadium crowds for the unemployed was a result of outside pressure on the part of University Hall conspiring with a Boston Transcript writer; initiative for a perfunctory resolution at the time of subway rioting also came from the Dean's office. Beyond this the existing organization has done nothing. The preceding council compiled a report on the tutorial system which has already produced results. If the present body has instigated any investigations, neither...
...little white house in Cambridge, Mass. Young Mr. Roosevelt is one of his father's principal campaigners in New England. He it was who held the power-of-attorney necessary for his father's admission to the Massachusetts primary. In that election he is on the Roosevelt slate as a delegate-at-large to the Chicago convention. Last week he told a Boston audience: "Neither Father nor his close friends can understand at this time the failure of Governor Smith to support his candidacy." Then he hustled off to Portland to gladhand Maine Democrats meeting there...
...full Roosevelt slate of delegates-at-large was put into the Massachusetts primary (36 votes) by Boston's Mayor Curley. One candidate was James, 25-year-old son of the New York Governor, who lives in Cambridge, sells insurance...