Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amended and passed the $89,000,000 appropriations bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Labor; sent it back to the House for conference...
...have I ever been a vice presidential candidate. ... I feel that at this time I should formally and publicly state that I am not and will not be a candidate for the vice presidential nomination...
...four years (1921-1924) chairman of the National Democratic Committee. The purpose of the Hull candidacy is to keep Tennessee from fighting too bitterly in the primary over Prohibition or, perchance over Roman Catholicism. The third or fourth ballot at the national convention is time enough to let some state electorates know for whom they really voted...
...voice in saying of who shall be the next President . . . I would name Albert C. Ritchie. . . . He has earned his way into the hearts of millions outside the State of Maryland. And I know what I'm talking about"?Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of the Roman Catholic diocese of Baltimore...
...Smith refused to accept his rejection, regarding himself as an agent of his State, duty-bound to fight out an issue between Illinois and the U. S. Senate. Governor Small of Illinois refused to appoint a successor to Smith, lest the "vacancy" be thus admitted by Illinois to be legal. The Illinois decision last week was to re-elect Smith, if possible, next autumn rather than go to court against the Senate at once...