Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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South Carolina's senior Senator, Coleman L. Blease, scouted the notion that his State, outstanding exemplar of secession, would bolt the Democratic ticket if Smith were nominated. This and other statements quieted the talk of Smith's "splitting" the South...
Illinois and Iowa verified their support, binding 58 and 26 votes, respectively, at state conventions...
...stripes of Tammany. His friends, in turn, are prone to exalt him as a Galahad of the masses, dight in spotless, and stripeless, armor. Actually, of course, he is simply a 54-year-old up-from-the-bottom man whose profession has been politics, whose acquired technique is state-government, whose ambition is what he calls "the highest office in the world." In acquiring his technique he found that knowledge of his job was necessary to rise in his profession and that honesty was an unbeatable asset after rising. In contemplating his ambition he has perceived that a public...
Sere, august Representative Burton of Mr. Brand's home State promptly called attention to Mr. Brand's inconsistency (TIME, March 26). It seemed a flagrant case of bootlicking by Mr. Brand in 1925 and hamstringing in 1928. Mr. Burton called it "vicious." Mr. Brand left the floor of the House flabbergasted, humiliated, speechless...
...Orleans, there was a State reception, with the very corpulent Mayor O'Keefe and other officials standing by. There were bouquets, compliments and invitations for Mademoiselle. For M. 1'Ambassadeur there was an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Loyola University, such as was given to le Maréchal Foch some years ago. Then they set out with Maurice de Simonin, the French consul-general, for the small towns and villages-Donaldsonville, Napoleonville, St. Martinville, New Iberia, in the bayou country...