Word: walsh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over this great jamboree of balloting presided Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, Chairman and Ballotmaster. The proceeding throughout the entire balloting was the same...
...Walsh: "The Secretary will call the roll of states for the nth ballot...
Wisconsin seconded Smith. The same group as the day before brought their standards over beside New York's. The howling of the Smith rooters recommenced. Some sirens were set going. Mr. Walsh threatened to have them ejected. The Smith managers shut it off in eight minutes...
Platform. Next morning, promptly an hour and five minutes late, Senator Walsh called the Convention to order. After a few routine matters had been disposed of, Homer S. Cummings of Connecticut, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, was introduced. He looked unutterably worn and tired. His voice when he spoke
...Pattangall of Maine proposed an amendment to the Ku Klux Klan plank, specifically naming and denouncing the Klan. At the reading of this plank, the Convention began to get excited. The Anti-Klan group cheered loudly. A parade almost started, but Chairman Walsh discouraged it by rapping vigorously for order...