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...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...
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...