Big Show at Chicago Was Four Masterpieces
The Republican convention in Chicago nominated Herbert Hoover for President and Charles Curtis for Vice President. Delegates debated a platform proposing a modification of the prohibition amendment to the states. The event drew thousands, with critics noting the long travel, costs, and theatrics of the convention as the process moved through roll calls and speeches.
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Wright A. Patterson
Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Charles Curtis
Borab
National Committee
California
James
Scott
Oregon
France
Hoover
Coolidge
Blaine
Wisconsin
Senator Wadsworth
New York
Doctor France
L. R. Sandblast
Portland
Ore
Massa’chusetts
Calvin Coolidge
Dawes
Nersee
Vine Obe
Curtin
Cago Stadium
Borah
Elever
Senator Fess
Lester Jesse Dickinson
Iowa
Senator Dickinson
Jones
Smith
Browh
Nicholas Murray Butler
Organization Committee
Snell
Maryland
Bingham
Connecticut
Prohibition
Maine
Kansas
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Major party platform fights fuel Chicago convention crowds
Delegates debated the Democratic platform as gallery crowds shout in support of the majority report and banter with speakers. Prohibition emerged as the pivotal issue while reform plank talk drew little interest amid a long, voice filled session that stretched past midnight without changing votes.
Standard Bearers Renominated at Republican Convention
President Hoover and Vice President Curtis were renominated by the Republican National convention. The roll showed Hoover with 1,126 votes and Curtis with 634 votes, aided by strategic switch by Pennsylvania. Everett Sanders named chairman of the new national committee.
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Curtis
Colonel MacNider
Iowa
General Harbord
New York
Governor Fuller
Massachusetts
Leonard Replogle
Florida
Charles G. Dawes
Eet
David Ingalls
Ohio
Ward Hurley
Oklahoma
Milton ‘Klepper
Portland
Oregon
Snell
Porto Rico
Pennsylvania
Edward Martin
Everett Sanders
Indiana
Coolidge
Bertrand H. Snell
Chicago Bank Employee Flees After Theft Allegation
A veteran worker at People's Trust and Savings bank faces theft charges after $82,000 was allegedly debited from dormant accounts and cashed. Bank president Earle Reynolds and assistant cashier Charles Pennell reported the scheme, which came to light when a customer found $2,000 missing. Pennell, employed 15 years, disappeared following the incident.
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Chicago
People’s Trust and ‘Savings Bank
Earle H. Reynolds
Charles L. Penneil
Pennell
Explosives Found in Bonus Seekers Camps in Washington
More than 12 000 veterans join police and guards in sweeping Anacostia flats near the receiving station after dynamite charges with caps and fuses are found in a camp. A veterans intelligence unit searches camps for radicals and weapons.
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Washington
Veterans’ Army
Anacostia Flats
Veterans
Amendment plugs error in new tax law
President Hoover signed an amendment to correct an error in the tax law. The change aims to secure 40 to 50 million dollars in excise levies. The bill, as approved by the House, states that contracts made before May 1, 1982, specifying who pays the tax on taxable goods not delivered by June 21, 1932, place the burden on the buyer.
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Washington
Hoover
House
Aimee Semple McPherson Stricken With Typhoid
Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton is ill with typhoid fever and must be isolated. The report was made to the board of health by Dr. C. Mc Kensie Jones.
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Aimee Semple McPherson
Los Angeles
Hutton
Board of Health
C. McKensie Jones
Highlights of the G. O. P. Platform
The Republican platform outlines Prohibition amendments, emergency relief loans to states, an emphasis on shorter work time, home building, and immigration limits, plus public economy. It pledges tariff protection, veteran safeguards, defense parity, crime laws, narcotics warfare, banking reform, and maintaining Hawaii’s status. President Hoover’s constructive program aims to restore mood and budget stability amid recovery.
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Resolutions Committee
Chicago
Federal Power Commission
Hoover
Balsar
Nevada
Maria’ Dawes
Vice
Dolly Gann
Congress
League Court
League
Hawaii
Presdent Hoover
Navy Bill Advances as Senate Rejects 10 Percent Cut
The $319 million naval appropriation passed the Senate after a motion to cut 10 percent was rejected. House Democrats began a wide inquiry into federal and state tax overlaps with Acting Speaker Rainey naming a five member committee to report in December. The House also moved a resolution to curb evasion of gas and oil taxes to save $32 million and the veteran bonus certificates would be paid in cash from the treasury. The Senate Finance Committee opposed the full veteran bonus, blocking a roll call. Fulmer’s Red Cross relief bill releasing 40 million bushels of wheat and 500,000 bales of cotton passed the House and went to the Senate.
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Washington
Senate
House
Rainey
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Thomas
Oklahoma
Fulmer
Red Cross
Spaniards of High Rank Seized in Alfonso Plot
Barcelona report says Gen Emilio Barra, a leading figure under Primo de Rivera, was arrested at his home charged with involvement in a plot to restore King Alfonso. His son and Baron de Mora were arrested in Madrid in connection with the plot.
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Alfonso
Barcelona
Spain
Emilio Barrera
Primo de Rivera
Baron de Mora
Madrid
Death halts debate on bonus measure in House
Washington reports Representative Edward E. Silick of Tennessee collapsed and died during his speech in the House debate on the Patman bill to pay the remaining $2 400 000 of the soldiers bonus. The chamber paused as the tragedy unfolded and tributes followed.
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Washington
Patman
Edward E. Silick
Tennessee
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Cermak
Chicago Vets
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Will Rogers
Gates
Will
Cwnu Service
Representative Swell
John J. Blaine
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
Charlies G. Dawes
Ilinois
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