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...Upshaw, Prohibition...
Franklin D. Roosevelt polled 370, while Thomas came a dangerously close third with 347 ballots. Foster received eight votes, and Reynolds, and Upshaw each had one supporter...
Rebuffed by Borah, the convention next nominated for the Presidency redheaded, wrinkled-faced William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, spry cripple, onetime (1919-27) Representative from Georgia. Frank Stewart Regan of Illinois was given the Vice-Presidential nomination. An ardent prohibitor but also a humble man, Nominee Upshaw announced that he would retire if Senator Borah or some other "outstanding figure" would agree to head a third party Dry ticket...
...Wets hailed Mr. Rockefeller into their fold as a convert and a damaging loss to the opposition, Drys damned him for a turncoat. "Unfortunately for your conception and interpretation you live in a stupefying, benumbing atmosphere of New York,"* wrote one-time Congressional Dry-leader William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw from the corn liquor country of Georgia. "Dr. Butler is an unsafe mentor for a high class, unsophisticated Christian like...
...town is still called Sarasota, Fla. The bank and all the shops were closed last week to honor the latest benefaction of Sarasota's first citizen: the opening of the Junior College and School of Art of the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher and Congressman Herbert Jackson Drane were there to make speeches. Bishop John Monroe Moore gave the benediction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His moonlike face wreathed in smiles, John Ringling himself was there to turn the buildings over to their new director, Dr. Ludd Myrl Spivey...