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Secretary: "Alabama?24 votes for Underwood. Arizona...
Maine seconded the nomination of Underwood...
Pennsylvania sent up a bevy of speakers who seconded in turn Smith, Underwood, Ritchie, McAdoo. A fifth speaker was about to second someone else when he was howled...
...Alaska, District of Columbia," he went on, "Hawaii, Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, Canal Zone." After each name the delegates sighed with relief. After two and a half days the roll call was over. Sixteen candidates had had themselves nominated. McAdoo had been seconded eleven times, Smith seven times, Underwood and Glass twice each, Silzer, Ritchie. John W. Davis and Brown once each. Two and half days had been worn away in oratory and Fahrenheit heat, interspersed with soul-exhausting demonstrations of as much enthusiasm as was thought to be politically effective. Yet an end had been achieved?not the nomination...
...Team; Julian Myrick, President of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association; Harold McCormick, husband of Ganna Walska; Mitzi, musical comedy star; Lionel Barrymore and Mrs. Barrymore (Irene Fenwick); Ina Claire; Lenore Ulric, famed Kiki, taking her first vacation in three years; Mme. Frieda Hempel, Metropolitan Opera soprano; John T. Underwood, typewriter President...