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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Middleton Cox, the party's 1920 nominee, urged his Ohio to vote a Change. At Mineola, N. Y. John William Davis, 1924 nominee, said approximately the same thing. At Troy Alfred Emanuel Smith, 1928 nominee, ridiculed President Hoover for trying to frighten the nation...
...Schodack, N. Y. Mrs. Elizabeth Rhoda, 102, was too infirm to go out and vote for Hoover. The President wrote her: "I am deeply touched. . . . I will take the will for the deed." ¶ As a little girl Mrs. George Carleton Beal, 75, of Manhattan, once sat in Abraham Lincoln's lap. Since then she has always voted straight Republican. Said she: "But I'm for Roosevelt this time. What I want is a man of action. . . ." ¶ Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, declared for Hoover: ''This is no time to make over human society...
...Astoria, N. Y. James O'Toole Jr., 9, cheered a Roosevelt radio speech, swallowed the Democratic nominee on a celluloid campaign button. An operation de-buttoned James O'Toole Jr. ¶ Into G. 0. P. headquarters in Manhattan switched a well-dressed woman who loudly exclaimed: "I'm for Hoover! I'm for him because he got us into this mess and I think he ought to be made to get us out." ¶ Daniel Willard. president of Baltimore & Ohio: "I expect to vote for President Hoover because I believe it's better...
...speed cameras, every reporter may now be his own photographer. And should be. The old World once issued handy cameras to all its newshawks (who soon lost them). So did the Journal. The practice is now coming back on the Gannett chain papers (notably in Albany and Elmira, N. Y.). whose editors are still searching for an "ideal foolproof camera...
Left. By Col. William Boyce Thompson, Yonkers (N. Y.) philanthropist: $16,624,600 net. To the American Museum of Natural History, a famed jade & crystal collection; to Brother Joseph Edward Thompson, a $500,000 trust fund; to Mrs. Joseph E. Thompson, $100,000; to Relict Gertrude Hickman Thompson, $7,756,755 in trust and the $1,000,000 Yonkers house; to Daughter Margaret Hickman Schulz Biddle, a $5,756,555 trust fund. Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 80; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 75; Senator James Eli Watson of Indiana, 68; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 31. Died. Frances...