Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican officials, State and national, had engaged in whipping up anti-Catholic animus. The most common offense seemed to be handing out The Fellowship Forum, nauseous, rabid Klanpaper (see p. 59). Two of the owners of this sheet, Mr. Raskob noted, were Republican State Chairman R. H. Angell of Virginia and William G. Conley, Republican nominee for Governor of West Virginia...
...Seymour (1868). It was the greatest electoral majority ever-444 to 87. The Harding landslide of 1920 was considered remarkable when it chipped Tennessee and Oklahoma off the Solid South. The Hoover avalanche included both these States and also swept away the Democracy's corner anchors, old Virginia and North Carolina, fruitful Florida, vast Texas. The Hoover-Smith ratio of popular votes, 17 to 12, was smaller than the Harding-Cox (16 to 9) or the Coolidge-Davis-LaFollette (15 to 8 to 5) but the electoral margin was such as to suggest that unless issues develop to split...
Assistant-Attorney General Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt started another speaking tour, in West Virginia, Tennessee, South Dakota, Minnesota, California. At St. Paul, she was to be matron of honor at the wedding of Miss Laura Ellen Volstead (daughter) and Carl Joys Lomen, Alaska's reindeer tycoon...
Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church. South, Hoover-Democrat, continued his fight with Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. During a speech at Bristol. Va.. he strayed from his main theme. Prohibition, to declare that Negroes employed by Tammany have white stenographers...
...votes of the total vote of 5,724,688. Seymour carried New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Maryland. The election of Grant was inevitable, for Grant sympathizers dominated the election in the Southern States where voting was permitted. The votes of Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia, all concededly Seymour States, by special act of Congress were not counted...