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“ I told him , ” Dawes wrote in a journal entry made that day , “ that I hoped he would not make the mistake James G. Blaine made when he became a defeated eleventh - hour candidate against Benjamin Harrison .
“ I told him , ” Dawes wrote in a journal entry made that day , “ that I hoped he would not make the mistake James G. Blaine made when he became a defeated eleventh - hour candidate against Benjamin Harrison .
Page 162
An unpublicized preview of the convention was run under the heavily beamed ceiling of the 40 - by - 100 living room of the Dawes home in Evanston on Sunday , June 4 , with most of the candidates other than Roosevelt and Hughes ...
An unpublicized preview of the convention was run under the heavily beamed ceiling of the 40 - by - 100 living room of the Dawes home in Evanston on Sunday , June 4 , with most of the candidates other than Roosevelt and Hughes ...
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Dawes ' margin over Herbert Hoover , the next candidate , was nearly three to one - 682 % votes to 234 votes , despite the fact that William M. Butler , chairman of the Republican National Committee , was working for . Hoover .
Dawes ' margin over Herbert Hoover , the next candidate , was nearly three to one - 682 % votes to 234 votes , despite the fact that William M. Butler , chairman of the Republican National Committee , was working for . Hoover .
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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