Word: switches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cochran Jr. ('29), Homer P. Cochran ('29), James Carey ('29), Latimer S. Steward ('29) and Dr. O. Currier McEwen, assistant dean of New York University's Medical College. At the reception and dance at Manhattan's socialite Colony Club, guests who remembered John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s preElection switch in favor of Volstead Act repeal investigated the punch, found it strictly nonalcoholic. Afterwards Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller III left for a month's honeymoon in Bermuda.* secretly boarded the S. S. American Legion, on which was a party of newshawks on vacation. Reception guests: Henry Ford. Supreme Court Justice...
...knew what was transpiring in the hotel rooms between sessions. In that notorious night session they knew that the grandstand play of McAdoo was an unnecessary slap at Al Smith, as permitted by the Roosevelt managers. During the day Illinois and Indiana had also united in the intention to switch to the governor. So the Mid-West, not Chicago, booed the Californian. The booing was done melodiously, in good taste, with the familiar razzberries of the rabble unheard...
...that lonely farm where, frosty winter evenings, the housedog runs barking at some invisible menace along the blackened beach, Odin works hard to be a man like Bendek in the inhuman countryside. Once, out picking cloud berries, he is attacked by mountain trolls. He beats them off with a switch, only to find that they are the Jörnstrand boys from over the hill. And so he meets their sister Karen-Anna, who is to be his love...
...evening, he knew he was as good as nominated. Manager Farley had reported that the California and Texas delegations had swung over, in return for the Vice Presidential nomination for Speaker Garner. Joy pervaded the Executive Mansion as the convention roll call started and William Gibbs McAdoo announced the switch that clinched the nomination...
Also on the heels of the Rockefeller switch, William Gibbs McAdoo, longtime temperance champion, came out with a defensive proposal. The legal machinery for resubmission or repeal would grind too slowly to be effective, thought he. Although legalists had argued that the Constitution does not provide for popular balloting on general questions. Lawyer McAdoo observed that the Congress was empowered "to provide for the general welfare of the United States." He proposed that the next President call a special session of Congress to empower him to proclaim "a national advisory referendum." Well aware that this liberal Prohibitionist policy...