Hoover Nominated as Friend of Labor in McNab Speech
The Kansas City nominating address for Herbert Hoover lauds him as a humanitarian engineer and statesman. It highlights his early work as a miner, relief efforts in World War I, farm protection, and leadership at Commerce, claiming the Great Depression era needs his steady character and national service.
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McNab
Europe
United States
Germany
Herbert Hoover
Department of Commerce
Commerce Secretary
Mississippi
America
Hoover Hosts Radio Party Awaiting Nomination
Washington June 14 Herbert Hoover secretary of commerce held a radio party in his office to hear the Republican national convention nominate him for president in Kansas City. Five personal friends and his son Herbert Hoover Jr listened to convention accounts via a trunk wire while United Press dispatches were read. Hoover showed slight nervousness from the anticipation and chewed a cigar as a sign of strain.
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Kansas City
John L. McNab
San Francisco
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Washington
Herbert Hoover, Jr
United Press
Hoover
Athens urged to establish an airport to boost travel by plane
The publisher argues Athens should build an airport to foster air travel, noting rapid aviation progress and examples of executives flying in for Ohio University events. He says an airport is a municipal duty and urges the Chamber survey results be presented to the city council for development.
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Athens
F. W. Bush
Athens Messenger
Chicago
Ohio University
Chamber of Commerce
China
League of Nations
League
County welfare conference opens in Logan
Logan June 14 140 county officials welfare workers and civic organization representatives attended the district welfare conference in the court house auditorium. Judge Ellinger urged that the government protect children for life and citizenship. Speakers from Athens Pickaway Fairfield Perry and Hocking counties discussed dependent and delinquent children and widowed mothers with charts and a luncheon program.
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Samuel M. Johnson
Athens
Ellinger
Ohio
Pythian Assembly Hall
Francis Maxfield
Ohio State University
James W. Knapp
Zanesville
Greve
A. Ethel Barger
Youngstown
Cora Brown
Logan
Trolley collision in Toledo injures two
A rear end collision in Toledo between an outbound trolley and a Toledo Bowling Green and Southern interurban car injured two people and shook up a score.
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Toledo
Toledo Bowling Green & Southern Interurban
Missionary Meeting at First M E Church Parlor
The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church will hold an important meeting at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon in the church parlors.
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Woman's Home Missionary Society of the
First
M. E. Church
Ill Student Helen Buschman Improves After Long Coma
Helen Buschman a 20 year old Lake Erie college student who has been in a coma for 150 days after being struck by an automobile is showing steady improvement according to her physician Dr W N Marsh.
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Painesville
Helen Buschman
Lake Erie College
W. N. Marsh
Stewart Freed on Senate Contempt Charge in Oil Leader Case
Stewart chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana was acquitted by a jury on four counts of contempt of the Senate Teapot Dome committee. He refused to answer questions about Continental Trading during February testimonies. The trial lasted over two weeks with deliberations of about twenty-one hours.
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Stewart
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Senate
Senate Committee
Continental Trading Company
Washington
Robert W. Stewart
Senate Teapot Dome
United States
Leo A. Rover
Chicago
Justice Siddons
Women See Reduced Role at Convention in Platform
In Kansas City on June 14 the convention gives women about half the delegate share from Cleveland four years ago and limits their influence on the 1928 platform. A single feminine plank mentions offices for women while the National Woman’s party push for a constitutional equality amendment is opposed by the League of Women Voters.
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Kansas City
U.R
Cleveland
National Woman's Party
Relief effort rushes groceries to Eastern Ohio unions
About 100000 pounds of groceries were rushed into Eastern Ohio by the National Miners Relief committee in response to urgent calls from local United Mine Workers of America unions in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
Ohio
National Miners Relief Committee
United Mine Workers of America
Hoover to Lead Nomination at Republican Convention
At Kansas City the Republican national convention opened amid farm relief debate. Hoover is set as the first candidate on the roll with Alabama first. LaFollette’s minority platform was defeated and Smoot read the majority plank amid protests. Vice presidential choices narrowed to six. Dawes largely out.
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Kansas City
U.P
Friends of
Middle West
Resolutions Committee
Herbert Hoover
Alabama
Herebert Hoover
California
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Charles Curtis
Kansas
James E. Watson
Indiana
Guy D. Goff
West Virginia
Famous Publicity Seeker Dircks Dies at 68 in Sandusky
U R Charles J Dircks 68 a lifelong politician and perennial candidate for president governor and congress died at his Sandusky home after a brief illness He gained national attention last March as a presidential hopeful on a wet platform advocating liquor delivery like milk and filed a candidacy form but was ruled ineligible due to German birth.
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Sandusky
U.R
Charles J. Dircks
Congress
Dircks
Sanduskian
Germany
Cyclone Lashes Sydney Area Causing Deaths and Damage
A cyclone swept over New South Wales damaging property and causing multiple deaths. Six people were reported killed as the storm hit Sydney, with damage estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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New South Wales
Sydney
Business Women to Meet This Evening
The Business Women's club will meet at 7 o'clock in the clubroom of the City building.
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Business Women’s Club
City Building
Republican platform outlines Coolidge doctrines in policy vows
The June 14 platform text endorses farm relief measures and tariff protection, pledges strict campaign finance disclosure, and calls for vigorous prohibition enforcement. It touts federal farm boards, diversification loans, and orderly marketing while opposing McNary Haugen and equalization fees. It also cites anti league of nations stance and labor injunction reforms.
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Resolutions Committee
Farm Bloc
Republican Party
Federal Farm Board
America
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