Word: stated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anti-Smith Democrats, they were gathered in their first State convention to put an independent ticket into the field against the regular Democratic organization led by Governor Byrd, Senators Glass and Swanson...
...Nominated by acclamation Prof. William Moseley Brown for Governor and Capt. C. C. Berkeley for Attorney-General. It left the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor open, in hopes the state Republicans would choose that candidate, thus permitting the two groups to coalesce against the regular Democrats. Nominee Brown, a 35-year-old professor of psychology at Washington & Lee University, was described as the state's "most cantankerous and catamountish campaigner," but when led to the platform he turned out to be a mild-mannered polite gentle man, still trailing a classroom atmosphere after him as he pleaded against bitterness, called...
With the convention over, observers waited to see whether the political hatreds and animosities of last year's national campaign could be successfully transposed to a state election in the South...
...nomination easily seemed to be Mr. Coleman's. But in Washington Secretary of State Stimson and House Leader Tilson, ardent Yale men both, became befuddled on their political dates. They mistook the Minnesota primary for the election. They wrote letters to Minneapolis endorsing their good old friend "Pudge" Heffelfinger. The Stimson-Tilson letters failed by a wide margin to nominate Candidate Heffelfinger. But they did switch enough votes to him from Candidate Coleman to permit Candidate Nolan to capture the nomination and the election which followed last week. It was a sorry business?the Administration's man being accidentally stepped...
Married. Frank D. Comerford, 36, president of New England Power Association, vice president and treasurer of International Paper & Power Co., and a Miss Mary McLaughlin of Worcester and Boston; in Vatican City. It was the first U. S. wedding in the new-made Papal State...