Coolidge Nominated at Cleveland. Dawes to Run Mate
Calvin Coolidge was nominated for president on the first ballot at Cleveland with near unanimous support. Charles G. Dawes of Illinois nominated for vice president after a search that included Hoover and Lowden, and Dawes was later made the unanimous choice. The convention endorsed the Republican platform, stressing party regularity and Coolidge’s personal character, and highlighted the party’s world court plank while noting immigration and foreign policy tensions abroad.
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John Dickinson Sherman
Calvin Coolidge
Cleveland
Charles G. Dawes
Illinoia
Coolidge
LaFollette
North Dakota
Wisconsin
Johnson
South Dakota
Thomas Scott
Frank W. Mendell
Wyoming
Lowden
Illinois
Borah
Idaho
Hoover
Dawes
Harbord
Curtis
Kansas
Kenyon
Iowa
Hadley
Missouri
Beveridge
Watson
Indiana
Cap Coolidge
Theodore E. Burton
Ohio
la Follette
Monell
Burton
Mondell
Marion Leroy Burton
University of Michigan
America
Republican Party
Permanent Court of International Justice
United States
League of Nations
League
Imperial Hotel
Tokyo
Churches of
Pontius Pilate
Japan
China
Washington
Pacific
Hawaiin
Australia
New Zealand
Estes Park Woman Elected President of General Federation
John D Sherman of Estes Park Colorado was chosen president at the Los Angeles convention succeeding Mrs Thomas G Winter of Minneapolis The General Federation with headquarters in Washington has 2 5 million nationwide members and wields influence shaping child labor wildlife and forestry policy.
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John D. Sherman
Estes Park
Colo
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Los Angeles
Alexandre Millerand
France
Cleveland Municipal Auditorium
Thomas G. Winter
Minneapolia
General Federation
Washington
United States
Upper
Mississippi
Sherman
American Woman Weds Danish Prince in Historic Alliance
Eleanor Margaret Green of New York marries Prince Viggo Christian Adolphe George of Schleswig-Holstein in New York. Viggo’s father Prince Valdemar is an uncle to King Christian and brother to Dowager Queen Alexandra of Great Britain and the Russian empress. The match marks the first American to wed a European throne holder, with parallels to Lois Booth's Ottawa union to Prince Erik.
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Iss Eleanor Margaret Green
New York
Viggo Christian Adolphe George
Royal House
Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderbourg-Glucksbourg
Denmark
Valdemar
Viggo
Christian
Alexandra
Great Britain
Russia
Misa Lois F. Booth
Ottawa
Ontario
Canada
Prince Erik
Prince Viggo
Abram S. Hewitt
Peter Cooper
Robert Green
Virginia
France Without a President After Millerand Resigns
France entered a political crisis as Millerand resigned after Poincare’s exit and Herriot declined to form a new ministry. Francois-Marsal became premier briefly, read Millerand’s message, then Millerand quit, accusing the left bloc and signaling a deputy bid from Maarthe et Moselle. Italy landed 2000 troops on Rhodes, signaling renewed tensions with western Europe.
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Poincare
Eduard Herriot
Frederic Francois-Marsal
Millerand
The
Elysee
France
Maerthe Et Moselle
Turkey
Europe
Emyrna
Rhodes
Asia Minor
Italy
Agriculture Shows Best Economic Balance Since 1919
The US Department of Agriculture notes in its June 1 review that agricultural production nears the best balance since 1919 but warns against overdoing poultry corn butter and potatoes while cutting back wheat beef cattle and hogs. It cites improving farm purchasing power and regional setbacks from rain cold and feed shortages, with oats planted late and pasture short in the south a moving corn crop and rising hog concerns.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Cattle and grain outlook amid drought and costs
The report notes heavy supply and credit strains weighing on mood. Winter grain heads well though short straw, drought in Kansas and Nebraska, harvest starting in the southwest, spring wheat beginning, and overall cautious optimism in cattle and sheep sectors despite financial pressures. Calf and lamb crops are favorable, wool prices rising slowly, shearings near done, range conditions sound.
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Wheat
Kansas
Nebraska
Nebraska ranks third in phones per person nationwide
Nebraska stands third among states in telephones per person, per a United States chamber of commerce report. Iowa leads with one phone per 2.7 persons, Kansas second with 2.8, Nebraska has one per 2.0, and Illinois one per three. There are 444,473 telephones in Nebraska.
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Nebraska
United States Chamber of Commerce
Iowa
Kansas
Illinois
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Charlies G
Hell and
Maria
Chicago
American Medical Association
William Allen Pusey
S. H. Snyder
Sidney, Nebraska
Telegraph
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Earl Metz
Sidney
Standard Oil Company OF
Olarine
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