Monday, Aug. 13, 1928
Votes
Additions to the Smith movement included:
John Erskine, Columbia University professor, musician, novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve). Reason: Prohibition.
William Mitchell, onetime stormy petrel of U. S. aviation. Reason: "President Coolidge has been handling the government...for a small group interested primarily in their own well-being."
Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, Republican daughter of the late E. H. Harriman. Reason: the Smith record as governor, Prohibition.