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G. O. P. Big Show At Chicago Was A Masterpiece
Chicago hosted the Republican convention nominating Herbert Hoover for President and Charles Curtis for Vice President. The event featured a full program, lavish badges, and energetic speeches as the party adopted a platform favoring modified prohibition and government reforms. Delegates and guests filled seats while debates over the Eighteenth Amendment dominated the spotlight and Will Rogers drew crowds for autographs.
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Wright A. Patterson
Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Charles Curtis
Borah
Enub
National Committee
Cago Stadium
Senator Fess
Lester Jesse Dickinson
Iowa
Dickinson
Jones
Smith
Brown
Nicholas Murray Butler
Organization Committee
Representative Snell
New York
Hoover
Oregon
France
Maryland
Bingham
Connecticut
Wisconsin
Prohibition
Maine
Kansas
James R. Garfield
Ohio
Garfield
Dr. Butler
Ogden Mills
Cermak
Oratory
Resolutions Committee
Federal Power Commission
Anton J. Cermak
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Will Rogers
Will