Word: snellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Snell (gavelling)?The spectators are the guests of the convention and we expect them to give peaceful attention to the platform...
When Chairman Garfield managed to finish his platform report, Chairman Snell steamrollered through a motion that debate on the Prohibition plank be limited to two hours. First speaker recognized was Senator Bingham...
Thursday. Chairman Snell let it be known that he would "run it through'' in one last session. He did. The convention was prayed over by Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman of St. Louis. Then Joseph Scott, premier orator of Pasadena who has two tremendous eyebrows and two sons in the Catholic priesthood, stood up to renominate his friend Herbert Hoover...
...policemen (like Nominee Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing). He was rescued by Hearst newshawks, allowed to pour out his grievances: "This is a colossal piece of political racketeering. I was going to put the name of Calvin Coolidge before the convention and it would have stampeded them. And Snell knew it. The nomination of this man Hoover is invalid...
...Other votes: U. S. Minister to Canada Mac-Xider, 182 3/4; General Harbord, 161 3/4; Alvan Fuller, onetime Governor of Massachusetts, 57; Snell, 56; all others, 55 1/2 absent...