Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of last week's political convulsion in Republican Illinois (see p. 11) was the acquisition of 49 of his home State's 61 delegates by Candidate Lowden. Other victories in the Midwest having brought the Lowden delegates to a total of 183, Clarence F. Buck, the Lowden impresario, announced that Mr. Lowden would be nominated at Kansas City on the fourth ballot...
...Washington police, forewarned by the U. S. State Department, were on hand to disperse and arrest a brigade of placard-bearers who appeared one day outside the White House in the name of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League. "Wall Street and not Sandino is the real bandit," said one placard. "We do not appeal to the White House but to the masses against the White House," said another. In the White House, unaware that his Nicaraguan policy was being so openly criticized, President Coolidge shook hands with other, flattered, peaceful tourists...
...From Spokane came unexpected news that the Washington Democrats, in state convention, had instructed their Houston delegation to cast all 14 votes for Candidate Smith. Senator Dill, previously opposed to Candidate Smith, remained silent during the session...
...biggest pair of shoes that ever walked out of Mississippi" belonged, according to Senator Pat Harrison of that State, to John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator, who now dozes in gardenia-scented retirement on his plantation near Yazoo City, Miss. To fill the Williams shoes, Mississippi sent to Washington Hubert Durett Stephens, a man who was considered brilliant as a youth because he started practicing law at the tender age of 20, but who has yet to distinguish himself either as a shoe-filler or as a Senator...
...this morning his weary marathoners will have covered approximately 1800 miles, or a little over half their trek. They are now in the state of Missouri, having plodded steadily onward ever since the fourth of March. It is hardly to be supposed that the reading public, long-suffering as it is, could have stomached a daily blurb as to the progress of the caravan. This, too, is as the A B C to Mr. Pyle. But only wait until the final sprint breaks loose somewhere in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, and the handful of hardy soles left cuts loose. Then...