Hoover Named At Convention Amid Boisterous Rally
At Kansas City June 14 delegates from Wisconsin Minnesota South Dakota Indiana and other states respond with wide support for Herbert Hoover after a first ballot showing 837 votes for Hoover 247 for rivals. California Texas Wisconsin lead the floor as cheers surge and processions circle the hall.
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Kansas City
Herbert Hoover
John L. McNab
San Francisco
McNab
California
Texas
Ralph
Wisconsin
Minnesota
South Dakota
Alinoa
Indiana
Lowden
Watson
Utah
Hoover
Illinois
Moses
Ara
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State delegates press mining issues and industry aid
Delegates in Goff state press calls to aid mining industry. They urge government action to remove restrictions hindering development.
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Goff
West Virginia Delegation Back Goff as Coal Issue Shapes Platform
The West Virginia delegation backs Senator Guy D. Goff for president amid a divided roll call on a minority farm relief plank. The mining plank urges government aid and reduced restrictions to support coal and mining, while Hoover gains strength for the nomination.
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R. P. Cronin
Kansas City
West Virginia
Guy D. Goff
Mountain State
Boyd Jarrell
Huntington
Robert M. LaFollette Jr
Minority Farm Relief Report
Geoff
Goff
Minority Farm A
West
Plank
Commerce
Herbert Hoover
Mrs Pankhurst Dies at Seventy in London Home
London June 14 AP Emmeline Pankhurst famed suffragette dies at home in London at seventy. Her death comes as she neared the milestone of joining Parliament, a goal she long pursued despite battles and protests. Women now vote on equal terms with men.
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London
Emmeline Pankhurst
England
Women Aviators Plan to Hop Off During Day
Two American women pilots, Amelia Barhart and Mabel Bell, prepared to depart from St Johns on early morning flights toward Europe. Barhart, with a two man crew, would fly via the Azores for refueling while Bell awaited favorable weather at Harbor Grace with her two man crew on standby.
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St. Johns
N. F
Europe
Amelia Barhart
Mabel Bell
Bolt of Lightning Kills Man at School Reunion
A man attending Princeton University’s 1913 class reunion in Princeton New Jersey was struck by lightning and killed while standing under a tree near Palmer Stadium. Robert W Patterson of Pittsburgh, visiting for the reunion, was amid a memorial service after a jazz orchestra had been planned. President John Grier Hibben spoke at the service.
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Princeton
N. J
Robert W. Patterson
Pittsburgh
Princeton University
Palmer Stadium
John Grier Hibben
Convention party crowd dwindles as Hoover nomination nears
Report from Kansas City notes few attendees remained at the Telegraph convention party after the nomination certainty. A Grand Piano radio setup in Bland street supplied speeches to the editor’s room but AP printers hindered clear reception, leaving only telegraphed bulletins. The Piano company provided late records on an electric Columbia machine for entertainment.
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Herbert Hoover
Kansas City
Grand Piano Company
Bland Street
Associated Press
Piano Company
Columbia
Soft coal operators plan confer on mine merger in New York
About 100 soft coal operators from Southern West Virginia and Virginia meet at the Waldorf Astoria to discuss a proposed 200 million dollar merger of their properties. The group, representing 35 million tons of the 50 million annual smokeless coal total, will review four month survey appraisals and plan a share exchange based on actual values.
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New York
West Virginia
Virginia
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Pocahontas Fuel Company
New River Company
Consolidation Coal Company
American Coal Company
Massachusetts Gas Company
Pond Creek Pocahontas Company
Berwind-White Coal Mining Company
Slab Fork Coal Company
Crozer Pocahontas Company
Fire at Hoover Headquarters Hotel Baltimore in Kansas City
Fire broke out on the roof of the Hotel Baltimore housing Hoover headquarters in Kansas City near 8 PM. Fire crews contained the flames with little damage. a crowd watched smoke rise from the street below.
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Kansas City
Baltimore
Hoover
Platform Ignores Wet Forge Appeals in Day Plane Call
The platform urges strict enforcement on debt reduction and living standards while calling for anti lynching laws. It stresses maintenance of public debt limits and enforcement of civil rights measures.
Convention Debates Farm Relief Plank at Republican Nominating Session
James L reports the Republican national convention adopted its platform after a two day fight over the McNary Haugen farm relief plank and prohibition repeal. Delegates split over alternatives urged by Butler Dow and La Follette while Wisconsin pushes for farm owned cooperatives.
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James L
Kansas City
Resolutions Committee
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
New York
Fred N. Dow
Maine
Wisconsin
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr
Wiscnsin
Latin America
China
Frank C. Lowden
Lowden
Farm Relief
Frank W. Murphy
Minnesota
Cool Turn
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Byrd Explains Proposed Constitutional Changes
Governor Harry Flood Byrd spoke for over an hour to about five hundred at the Virginia side high school on proposed constitutional amendments. He described them as non-partisan business measures, reviewed Virginia’s government history, and urged listeners to judge their effectiveness in cutting waste and encouraging industry.
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Virginia
Bluefield
Harry Flood Byrd
Virginia Side High School
Virginia Side
Methodist Church
George Crockett
Well County
Sallie Lits
Sheb Dudley
Byrd
W. L. Sexton
Robbery, slaying mark Kansas City convention day
A Home Trust bank holdup in downtown Kansas City during a Republican convention left five wounded, one fatally, and Alvin Faeth, 80, dead of heart disease after the shock. Tear gas dispersed the robbers who fled with about 19 thousand dollars. Officer James H. Smith died from shotgun wounds. Lillian M. Rolen, 16, was shot in the face. Darrell Capshaw and others were injured. Authorities sought Hoover’s vice presidency stance amid a crowded field.
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Kansas City
Home Trust Company
James H. Smith
Lillian M. Rolen
Darrell Capshaw
Charles Monaco
Kenneth Knickerbocker
Alvin Faeth
Utility group discloses textbook edits and survey bias
Washington reports two Chicago witnesses in the federal trade commission utility inquiry testified that the text book committee of the National Electric Light Association worked with Ginn and Company to delete objectionable material from a 122000-student text. A $150000 nationwide survey on municipal plant failures was funded by the public service magazine and power companies.
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Washington
Ginn and Company
National Electric Light Association
Chicago
Federal Trade Commission
Fred J. Jenkins
Maryland
West Virginia
Holt says football best taught in colleges at Davie and Elkins
Hamilton Holt, former editor of the Independent, denounces the lecture system in colleges at Davie and Elkins College in Blkins West Virginia. He advocates instructors with personality over research professors and claims football is the only subject well taught in modern colleges.
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Blkins
W Va
Hamilton Holt
the Independent
Davie & Elkins College Today
Holt
First Vote Totals Show Hoover Ahead Nationwide
The results list extensive state by state tallies with Hoover leading in many regions and a total vote of 1084 cast. Curtis Watson Dawes Coolidge Norris Hughes Goff Lowden and others appear with smaller counts. three not voting.
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Alabama
Hoover
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Curtis
Georgia
Idaho
Miraole
Coolidge
Lowden
Watson
Dawes
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Mic
Minnesota
Den
Mississippi
Missouri
Hughes
Montana
Nebraska
Norris
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Curtin
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Alaska
District of Columbia
Hawaii
Philipines
Porto Rico
Oover
Goff
President Coolidge Nears Wisconsin On Secret Train
President Coolidge travels in seclusion aboard a special train en route from Washington to the Wisconsin summer White House. Mrs Coolidge rests while a radio on the car follows Kansas City convention news. Rob Roy the collie amuses the president as crowds greet the nine Car convoy through Ohio Indiana and Illinois toward Superior.
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President Coolidge
Superior
Wix
Kansas City
Coolidge
Washington
Wisconsin
White House
Coolidge Appeals To Connecticut Delegation In Hoover Support
President Coolidge asked the Connecticut group not to vote for him at the Republican convention in Kansas City. The Connecticut delegation, after receiving the message through Everett S. Sanborne, cast its votes for Herbert Hoover as requested. Senator Bingham, head of the delegation, announced the shift following the direct appeal from the president. Sanders did not discuss the message but did not deny its transmission.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Kansas City, Mo
Herbert Hoover
Washington
Mellon
Charles Beecher Warren
Hoover
Dawes
Moses
New Hampshire
Kige
New Jersey
Tilson
Connecticut
Fuller
Massachusetts
Curtis
Kansas
Deneen
Illinois
Frank C. Lowden
Baker
Missouri
Hyde
Capper
Henry Allen
John J. Pershing
Sam R. McKelvie
Nebraska
Hanford MacNider
Iowa
Reed
Pennsylvania
Everett Sanders
Kansas City
Republican National Avention
Coolidge
Bingham
Everett Sancare
Mr. Coolidge
Sanders
Meneage
Hoover landslide nomination tops Republican convention
Herbert Hoover won the presidential nomination on the first ballot at the Republican convention in Kansas City. Frank Lowden withdrew, boosting Hoover as delegates cheered through a dramatic roll call and a party bid for the vice presidential choice to follow tomorrow.
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Byron Price
Kansas City
Herbert Hoover
California
Denta Harding
Coolidge
Frank O Lowden
Illinois
Norris
Goff
Lowden
Hughes
Hoover
Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover accepts Republican nomination amid quiet celebration
In Washington on June 14 Herbert Hoover, cited as the Republican nominee, accepted congratulations from close friends in a flushed, happy moment. He offered no comment and retired, trusting tomorrow to handle the new problems ahead as the announcement of his renomination spread.
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Herbert Hoover
United States
Washington
Herbert Hoover Townight
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McNary-Haugen Farm
Old Dominion
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Yeggs
Allen
Utility Group
National Electric Light Committee
President Nears
Paulen
Curtis Kansas
Senator Curtin
Eve
Lowdon
J. N. Tincher
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