Wood campaign shows up as delegates shift in GOP race
The article details Wood's growing strength among South Dakota and other delegations, with Johnson's support weakening as rumors spread of a Wood nomination. It notes resignations, reassignments, and keynote moves including Mayor Thompson backing Johnson, Weeks replacing Crane, and Coolidge securing Massachusetts on the resolutions committee.
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Will Hays
Watson
Viende
Ogden Mille
Hays
South Dakota
Thin
Wood
Johnson
MC Meienous
William Hiie Thompson
Thompson
Lowden
National Committee
Resolutions Committee
Suffrage Pickets March For Access To City Convention
National Woman's party prepares peaceful picketing of the Chicago convention with about 150 banners along the Coliseum sidewalk. Abby Scott Baker and Doris Stevens push governors to call special sessions for suffrage, while fundraising ends funding worries with a 1500 donation.
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Chicago
National Women's Party
Pacific
Thompson
Abby Scott Baker
Doris Stevens
Vermont
Connecticut
Sproul
Pennsylvania
Alice Paul
Coliseum
White House
B. Wood
H. C. Havemeyer
East
Republican Section
National Association
Horace Brock
Republican National Committee
Lincoln Nominated In Only 26 Words
At the first Republican National Convention in Chicago sixty years ago an Iowa delegate walked 160 miles to reach a railroad for travel. Special rail rates and wartime crowds doubled the city’s population during convention week. Hotel rooms averaged 1.60 to 2.50 dollars daily. Billiard tables served as beds in crowded hotels. The Wigwam venue was similar in size to the Coliseum annex.
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Chicago
Iown
Chaplain Practices Prayer in Coliseum Test
Chicago June 7 Everything seems set for the convention opening tomorrow. Rev Gardner McWhorter the chaplain for day one tested his voice by practicing a prayer through the amplifying instruments hanging around the Coliseum. Workmen paused to hear as he adjusted volume to reach the entire hall.
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Chigago
Gardner McWhorter
Delegates Arrive as Wigwam Decorated for Convention
The Wigwam hall brimmed with Republican women furnishing the decoration. A special train with Massachusetts and New England delegates arrived as rockets and cannons announced their arrival. Women led gallery seats with escorts while men struggled to enter. Nominating speeches for Lincoln were brief and cannon firings marked the nomination.
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Chicago
Massachusetts
New England
Indiana
Abraham Lincoln
The
Chicago Historical Society
Believe Nixon Qualified Crosby Tells Why Women Favor Him
Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby, chair of the Committee of One Thousand Democratic Women, said Nixon for President has broad experience in commerce, shipping, manufacturing, agriculture, and domestic affairs. She praised his culture and wide acquaintance with leaders at home and abroad.
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Nixon
Crosby
John Sherwin Crosby
Public Service
Lewis Nixon
Lucy Page Gaston Quits Race for Presidency
CHICAGO June 7 Lucy Page Gaston the only woman entrant in the Presidential race announced that her name will not be presented at the convention She said she has withdrawn in favor of anyone who will endorse the moral reforms she stands for Gaston entered the South Dakota primaries on a platform including anti cigarette measures pure food and clean morals
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Chicago
Lucy Page Gaston
Miss Gaston
South Dakota
Dark Horse Talk In Preconvention Booths And Broun
The piece surveys political campaigns at hotel and street headquarters. It notes Hoover offers a clear issue set while others peddle souvenirs. It reports on Johnson attacking Article X at the Auditorium, Bryan applauding, and a crowd reaction with Borah drawing praise for opposing payoffs in preconvention politics.
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Merchert Hoover
Hoover
Congress
League of Nations
Samuel Adams
Warren Harding
Lowden
Herrington
Kan
Charles B. Hughes
State Street
Bryan
Johnson
Hiram Johnson
William Jennings Bryan
Woa
Mr. Bryan
Amocrat
Senator Johnson
Senator Borah
Mr. Borah
Mr. Johnson
Borah
United States
Lowden and Wood Exchange Calls Visit Presidential Nominees
Governor Lowden met Major General Wood at Wood’s headquarters on Presidential Tower. Wood then called on Lowden and shook hands with other presidential hopefuls during the day in Chicago on June 7.
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Lowden
Wood
Hoover Sees No Third Party in U S Politics
Special Dispatch reports Herbert Hoover, en route to Swarthmore College, says there will be no third party and politics will be driven by Democratic and Republican candidates. He expects the big issue to be the league of nations versus economics and discusses relief to Europe and postwar plans. He notes not attending the Chicago convention and mentions Swarthmore ties and family privacy.
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Tribuna
Philadelphia
Herbert Hoover
Swarthmore College
Hoover
New York
Chicago
Friends
Sproul
Mitchell Palmer
Society of Friends
Palmer
Oregon
Swarthmore
Friends’ College
United States
Swain
Leland Stanford Junior University
Europe
Poland
Odds Updated On Political Bets Slashing Several Figures
Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania was listed at 6 to 1 by Wall Street bookmakers for the first time yesterday. James W. Ball & Co. reported changes from Saturday with Harding down to 5 to 1, Butler narrowing to 5 to 1, Hughes at 4 to 1, and Knox at 5 to 1, while Sproul opened at 6 to 1.
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Governor Sproul
Pennsylvania
Wall Street
James W. Ball & Co
Harding
Butler
Hughes
Knox
Liberals Plan Platform Battle in Senate Rule Debate
Liberal leaders debate a rank and file platform as four planks remain unwritten including league of nations labor Mexican affairs and liquor questions. A push favors enforcement of all federal laws without naming the Volstead act while labor disputes split persists. Samuel Gompers arrives to oppose curbs on strikes as suffrage expansion is urged nationwide.
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Tien
Mills
Watson
League of Nations
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Committee On
Senate
Samuel Gompers
National Committee
Penrose Keeps Close to Telephone Resting Comfortably
Senator Boies Penrose is described as resting fairly comfortable by his physician Dr. Herbert B. Carpenter. He is said to be sitting up and busy on the telephone with Chicago with improvement noted. Secretary Leighton C. Taylor notes attention to convention work continues and that Penrose is in constant communication by telephone and telegraph.
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Philadelphia
Boies Penrose
Herbert B. Carpenter
Carpenter
Chiesgo
Leighton C. Taylor
Penrose
The Evening Mail Raises Price to Three Cents
The Evening Mail increases its daily price to three cents citing doubled newsprint and labor costs over two years. Production and distribution costs justify the move, with newsdealers set to earn 60 cents per hundred copies, a 50 percent increase, while readers face higher costs for news content.
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Evening Mail
Journal and Globe
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