Word: snellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Dickinson presented to the convention its permanent chairman, Representative Bertrand Hollis Snell, Potsdam, N. Y. cheesemaker. Chairman Snell, plump and pink, was escorted to the platform by a delegation of ladies headed by Mrs. Alvin Hert, vice-chairwoman of the National Committee. From the first bang of his gavel, for which was later substituted a bungstarter, it was apparent that stout Mr. Snell had the convention in his round red fist...
...night before, Mr. Snell had sent word around to the delegations that when he uttered the name of Hoover there must be no repetition of yesterday's disgraceful lack of enthusiasm. His address, which he had shown to his House adversary, Speaker Garner, began by pitilessly flaying the Democratic opposition...
...Minneapolis, the President's political secretary, seized the Minnesota guidon. Senator Fess snatched the disloyal Wisconsin standard and waved, cackling with joy. The Hamilton (Ohio) Glee Club, a group of funereally garbed songsters who once provided music for Warren Gamaliel Harding's front porch campaign, sang manfully. Chairman Snell rapped for order, smiled when he did not get it, got it not long after without much rapping...
...Everyone knew that if this singularly colorless convention was to have the slightest splash of pigmentation, now was the time for it. Charles Gates Dawes had refused to permit his friends to boom him for the Vice-Presidency. Opposition to the renomination of Charles Curtis was completely demoralized. Chairman Snell had told the "newspaper boys" that in all probability Dr. Joseph Irwin France, sole Hoover opponent for the Presidency, would not be allowed inside the Stadium. But there would be a struggle worth watching, thought observers, when the Prohibition section of the platform came to the floor. Nicholas Murray Butler...
...convention was called to order. Howling delegates from Illinois, Pennsylvania, Connecticut. New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Rhode Island, Michigan, Maine, Indiana started a parade. "We Want Repeal, No Bunk." read signs carried by the Illinois contingent, which also displayed a row of beer cans hung between two poles. Chairman Snell managed to stop this with his bungstarter...