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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Primaries and state conventions during the week brought the total of delegates actually or theoretically Hooverized to 164. Accretions were Maine's 8, Michigan's 33, Kentucky's 29, 47 in New York and one in Wisconsin. The "actual" standing of other G. O. P. candidates was: Lowden, 100; Curtis, 23; Norris...
...well-disciplined Old Guardsman. They will remove the last trace of the disrepute which Guardsman Goff suffered from his connection with the Alien Property scandals under Attorney General Daugherty. Other reasons for the gesture will be to head off Hooverism in West Virginia and to carry on a State tradition. West Virginia Republicans almost always have a Favorite Son. In 1920 it was Howard Sutherland, the coal man from Elkins who sat in the Senate from 1917 to 1923 and is now U. S. Alien Property Custodian...
...Returns from primaries and state conventions brought the total of Smith-pledged or Smith-instructed delegates to 244. The week's accretions were New York, 86; Maine, 12; Wisconsin, 26; Michigan, 30. Returns from Iowa county conventions indicated that Candidate Smith had beaten Favorite Son Meredith so decisively that he would end by getting all of Iowa's 26 delegates. For other Democratic candidates, the standing of delegates last week was Reed, 36 (Missouri); George, 28 (Georgia). Of Arkansas' 18 delegates, and Louisiana's 20, which are uninstructed, a majority were said to be pro-Smith...
Every time a share of stock is sold on the New York Stock Exchange, New York State gains a tax of two cents. On these 4,000,000-share days the tax surpasses...
...straight," said Fred Genazzi of Point Reyes, Calif., to Captain W. B. Sellner, State Fish and Game Commissioner, who had accused him of dumping garbage on his (Sellner's) property...