Word: solider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nine States that Nominee Smith courted on his first campaign tour-listed in the order of their likelihood for him: Montana, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado-have 63 electoral votes. Added to the nucleus of the Solid South and New York, upon which the Smith candidacy is predicated-the total would be 222 if his courtship has been 100% effective. Before the most optimistic of the Smith managers lay the problem of how to acquire 44 more electoral votes from the following possibilities...
...souls, or one-eighth of the total population of the United States. There is a great quarter in New York called Harlem, populated exclusively by colored people. A grave riot in this quarter last July was with difficulty suppressed after a night of bloody conflicts between the police and solid masses of blacks...
Valuable as the political clubs may be in bringing the campaign to the college for a short time every fourth fall, they give no solid assistance to the college man baffled by his first voting opportunity, Really to cast one's vote intelligently, one should follow party issues from far before the time that they become mere political slogans. Enthusiastic attendance at last minute discussions and oratorical contests is hardly sufficient to acquaint the average college listener with the bewildering vibrations of the political shuttle-cock as it bounces from farm relief to prohibition, from water power control...
Having travelled 8,000 miles to and fro through the Solid South, Nominee Robinson said: "Without doubt, the religious question is foremost...
...Solid South (10 states) and the following...