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G. O. P. Big Show at Chicago Was a Masterpiece
The Republican convention in Chicago nominated Herbert Hoover for President and Charles Curtis for Vice President. It adopted a platform with a modified prohibition plank and adjourned after a lengthy show of speeches and gallery drama. Though Oregon backed France briefly, Hoover won on first ballots. debate over prohibition dominated, with crowd scenes, speeches by Butler and Ogden Mills, and a strong city welcome from Mayor Cermak.
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Wright A. Patterson
Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Charles Curtis
Borah
Cub
National Committee
California
James Scott
Oregon
Doctor Prince
Hoover
Coolidge
France
Blaine
Wisconsin
Wadsworth
Massachusetts
Calvin Cooldge
Calvin Coolidge
Dawes
Curtis
Cago Stadium
Tess
Neveestle
Lester Jesse Dickinson
Dickinson
Jones
Smith
Brown
Nicholas Murray Butler
Organization Committee
Snell
New York
Maryland
Ringham
Connecticut
Prohibition
Maine
Kansas
James R. Garfield
Ohio
Garfield
Dr. Butler
Ogden Mills
Cermak
Resolutions Committee
Federal Power Commission
Anton J. Cermak
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Will Rogers
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