Roosevelt's Campaign Role Key to Smith Nomination
In 1924 Franklin D Roosevelt joins the Smith campaign, taking over in May and placing Smith’s name at the national convention. His platform work win over southern and western leaders while bridging party divides and promoting progressive reforms. Roosevelt’s return to politics reshapes Smith’s bid and foreshadows 1928 support for the Democratic ticket.
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Roosevelt
McAdoo
Wilson
Smith
Busiessike
York
Democratic Women
Murphy
Bourke Cochran
San Francisco
Mying
Madison Square Garden
Licely
John W. Davis
Madison Square
Coolidge
Washingon
Bryans
New York
Alfred B. Smith
North
Georgia
South
Wadsworth
Robert F. Wagner
Houston
Happy Warrior
Nancy Ganke's Festive Table With Fruit Tree Globes
Nancy's Christmas table attracted many compliments and stayed largely the same through the holiday week. She created two decorative fruit trees using stout mail tubes, white lacquer, circular wooden bases, and globe forms of puree sieves filled with glossy laurel leaves and bright red fruits.
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Nancy
Christmas Day Weather and Local Incidents in 1922 Gazette
1922 items note warm Christmas with a 44 degree high and 27 low. Local injuries include a woman struck on Eighth avenue and Fourth street west and a Rock Island brake man injuring his leg in West Liberty. Other notes mention a Sigma Alpha Epsilon delegate from Iowa State College, a California visit, and a church leadership move.
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Eighth Avenue
Fourth Street
Frank Krebs
Detroit
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
Iowa State College
Show Girl at Greene's Opera House Draws Crowd
Charles C. Stoddard of D. Appleton visits his parents in town. About 500 youths receive a Christmas treat organized by Marshal Kozlovsky with merchant support. City auditorium program featured music and talks by Rev. Green Mayor Huston and John Redmond. Miss Mary Dickinson and Vic Condron wed on Christmas Eve. The earth’s annual orbit covers 584,600,000 miles.
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Greene’s Opera House
Charles C. Stoddard
D. Appleton and Comepany
J. C. Stoddard
Joseph Kozlovsky
City Auditorium
Thomas E. Green
C. D. Huston
John M. Redmond
Mary B. Dickinson
Victor C. Condron
N. A. Mershon
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Franklin D Roosevelt
Poor PA
Claude Callan
Joseph M. Proskauer
Ernest K. Lindley
The
Bobbs-Merrill Co
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Nancy Page
Pacers
Cesare
Armstrong
Mary Armours
Psizool
Florence Lea Ganke
B. L. Cook
Charles
California
Helen Byrnes
Greene's Opera House
Mary Boyce
Fred Alliston Niles
Boyce
John Arthur
W. S&s. Meyers
Rock Island
West Liberty
T. 8. Paris
Christian Church
Liscomb
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