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Big Show at Chicago a Republican Convention Matrix
Chicago witnessed the Republican convention nominating Herbert Hoover for President and Charles Curtis for Vice President. The event featured extensive travel costs, numerous delegates, and a clash over prohibition with the majority favoring a plank to modify the Eighteenth Amendment. Will Rogers drew crowds for autographs as Alice Roosevelt Longworth captured attention among women.
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Wright A. Patterson
Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Charles Curtis
Senator Borah
Cub
National Committee
California
James Scott
Oregon
Doctor France
Hoover
Coolidge
France
Blaine
Wisconsin
Senator Wadsworth
Massachusetts
Calvin Coolidge
Dawes
Curtis
Cago Stadium
Borah
Senator Fess
Lester Jesse Dickinson
Iowa
Dickinson
Jones
Smith
Organization Committee
Representative Snell
New York
Maryland
Bingham
Connecticut
Prohibition
Maine
Kansas
Dr. Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler
Ogden Mills
Cermak
Resolutions Committee
Federal Power Commission
Anton J. Cermak
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Will Rogers
Will