Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah smiled his crinkly smile and asked: "Who's going to be nominated for Vice President...
Another more likely story is as follows: The party chieftains sat up late, all night in fact. They telephoned to Vice President Dawes in Evanston, Ill. He was most agreeable to running again if drafted. His chief proponent, Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mc-Cormick went to bed believing the matter was settled. She was awakened about 6 a. m. and asked to go back to Secretary Mellon's room. The conference had decided that Mr. Dawes had been too anti-administration. Who else would please Illinois? Senator Borah had put in his word for Curtis earlier. Channing Harris...
...vote was Curtis, 1,052; with 13 for Vice President Dawes; two for Col. Hanford MacNider of Iowa, onetime (1925-28) Assistant Secretary of War. The only other man to receive a vote was Attorney General Herman L. Ekern of Wisconsin, with...
...decorous novelty was the joint presentation of a U. S. husband & wife, Vice-Admiral & Mrs. Guy Hamilton Burrage, he commanding the U. S. European Squadron. Other U. S. males in attendance peered from a distance at courtesying wives, daughters...
...182.That such is still the intent of Japan was shown last week when Vice President Yousuke Matsuoka of the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway said : "Our policy, frankly, is peace at any price. . . . Japan will close the door to any Chinese army which seeks to carry on Civil War north of the Great Wall...