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Republicans have almost, if not quite, forgotten that their convention at Cleveland is to nominate a Presidential candidate. They are discussing, but very unconvincingly, Vice Presidential aspirants. The only definite opinion about the man to be put up for Vice President was that he should be a Westerner, preferably a...
Governor Al Smith, it was believed, had chosen Franklin D. Roosevelt, his campaign manager, to nominate him?a sort of return compliment, since Governor Smith seconded Mr. Roosevelt's nomination for Vice President in 1920. For a seconder of his nomination, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, sister of Lady Astor, was...
His illness, reported as pneumonia, was severe; it kept him from the legislative halls; it kept him from playing an active, leading part in most of the major legislation battles of the passing session. Recently he left the Capital for Atlantic City to complete his convalescence. Presumably, the salubrious breezes...
She referred to the recent Republican fiasco (the nomination of the "unknown" Senator Harding). The comment of the country, she declared was: "Well, they might have done worse." Then gazing directly at her hearers, she proclaimed: "Nominate Mr. Davis and the comment that will ring through out the land will...
"It is naturally pleasing to be honored to preside over a convention that will assuredly nominate the next President of the United States"?the words came naturally to Mr. Harrison. They flowed from his tongue without a second's hesitation when he heard that he had been chosen as...