Word: votesâ
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...this Mr. Foster might have replied with great point: "We don't want a pure Communist organization nor a pure Communist platform because it will serve us better to control a party which might get many non-communist votes???on that account we would have liked to ride on the tail of Mr. LaFollette's kite. It would give us an opening and make a better impression in Moscow...
...holds in Democratic Conventions Mr. McAdoo will need 732 votes ?some 300 more?to be nominated. Boss George E. Brennan of Illinois, anti-McAdoo leader, challenged McAdoo to advocate a change to a Dimple majority requirement for nomination. Under a majority-vote rule McAdoo would need only 550 votes???about 150 more than he now has. If Mr. McAdoo is to be nominated, such a change would make the matter simpler. On the other hand, if Mr. McAdoo is not to be nominated, the change would make it less easy for him to prevent the nomination of an opposing...