Word: paradee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Automatically, and because there was nothing else to do, the Convention went on balloting. When any state changed its vote to McAdoo or to Smith, there was a burst of enthusiasm followed by a parade of state standards around the aisles. When the state flopped back to one of the...
New Jersey sent up John E. Matthews to nominate Governor Silzer. New Jersey started a jaded parade, followed by New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. A pretty girl on the platform turned round and round, holding aloft the Governor's picture; another waved a flag; a glee club yowled intermittently. It...
W. R. 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...
In Manhattan a female McAdoo supporter sat up all one night constructing herself a "McAdoo dress" out of McAdoo flags, ribbons, posters. Appareled in the garment, she next day led McAdoo enthusiasts in a sidewalk parade. Newsboys followed, jeered, shouted: "Where you from-the circus?" Others shouted: "McAdoo Oil! McAdoo...
Colonel John C. Coolidge, father of the President: "It was reported I sent to the Republican National Committee the following telegram in response to an invitation to be present at the Cleveland Convention: 'Telegram received. Thanks. I cannot see my way clear to go to the Convention.' Newspapers...