1920 Election

COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 12, 1920 (UP) -- Harding and Coolidge are the Republican ticket for the November presidential election.

COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 12, 1920 (UP) -- The Republican party in the South has got to poll more votes or be penalized through reduction of its representation in future national conventions, as a result of action taken by the convention today.

MARION, Ohio, June 12, 1920 (UP) -- "This old home town" of Senator Harding plunged head over heels into joyous celebration this evening when word came that her son had been nominated for the presidency at Chicago.

NEW YORK, June 12, 1920 (UP) -- Herbert Hoover, candidate for the Republican nomination, sent the following message tonight to Senator Harding: "I hasten to tender you my most cordial personal congratulations on your nomination and on the great opportunity which it affords you to interpret the desires of the American people."

COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 12, 1920 (UP) - A belief that Senator Warren G. Harding will be nominated for president by the Republicans before the nightfall permeated the big Coliseum when delegates gathered there this afternoon to resume balloting. The air was vibrant with excitement. The galleries were a constant wave of motion. On the floor of the convention delegates jammed the aisles and engaged in animated conversation.

Harding was elected by the greatest popular vote ever amassed in American history.

ABOARD STEAMSHIP PARISMINA, Nov. 22, 1920 (UP) -- President-elect Harding's cabinet will be composed entirely of Republicans and will not be a coalition cabinet, according to persons close to Harding.

NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 1920 (UP) - "Regardless of details, which must be worked out with care in the framing of legislation, the idea of regional commissions for mediation, conciliation and arbitration for industrial differences is the basis of the Republican program," President-elect Warren G. Harding stated in a letter written to Collier's Weekly before his election.

MARION, Ohio, Dec. 31, 1920 (UP) - Steps toward gradual world disarmament will be taken by President-elect Harding early in his administration, according to authoritative information today.

WASHINGTON, March 4, 1921 (UP) - President Warren G. Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge assumed office today.

WASHINGTON, March 5, 1921 (UP) - The Harding administration today formally shouldered the burden of government.