National Affairs: Mad Mann

The loud slamming of the White House's front door shortly after March 4, 1929 was responsible for reverberating echoes about political Washington last week. The slammer was President Hoover; the slammee was a bristly-haired, thick-necked Tennessee lawyer named Col. Horace Mann.* A skillful organizer and patronage broker for the G. O. P., South, Col. Mann used to play poker with President Harding, no stickler in politics. He did useful jobs for Calvin Coolidge in 1924. An ardent Hooverizer, he turned up in Kansas City in 1928 with enough Negro delegates on his list...

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