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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political history was made at Alexandria, La. on Jan. 20 when the Republican State Convention unanimously indorsed Mr. Hoover for the Republican nomination-NOT A LINE in TIME about this important event...
Smith v. Walsh. South Dakota, adjacent to the home State of Candidate Walsh (Montana), held Democratic and Republican State conventions last week. The Republicans unanimously endorsed a Lowden-Dawes ticket. The Democrats voted on Smith v. Walsh. Result: Smith, 43,876; Walsh...
...which suggests the horrible. Each plot contains an animal more terrible than the last. Bats, spiders, gorillas have been successful in providing thrills, and to them is added the octopus, the slimy vandal of the underseas. As the object of these beasts is to freeze the audience into that state of terror which precedes death and renders impossible thought, more and more frightful titles may be daily expected. Pithicanthropus erectus may soon overawe the spectators, or perhaps a pterodactyle; at the denouement they could, with customary plausibility, be found traveling salesmen who had cast such weird shadows by walking...
Like most of the presidential possibilities, Willis served his political apprenticeship in a law office. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1906, and later sat in the State Assembly for two years. A seat in the House of Representatives held him for two Congresses, when he resigned to succeed James M. Cox as Governor of Ohio. The Senate took him from the Governor's chair, and now a group of Republicans is boosting him as an opponent for Governor Vic Donahey...
...Finally, we come to the question of foreign policy. Here it is known (a) that on one occasion Smith persuaded the Democratic State convention in New York to adopt a World Court plank, though this was some years back, and (b) that in his reply to the Marshall letter, he said, regarding Mexico. "I recognize the right of no church to ask armed intervention by this country in the affairs of another country, merely for the defense of the rights of a church...