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Show YALE STUDENTS' MOCK CONVENTION NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 11. With an order of business patterned after a regular Republican national convention, conven-tion, Yalo undergraduates tonight held a mock convention before an audience of 2,000 townspeople 'and "nominated" Herbert Hoover for the presidency. The vote on the formal ballot was: Hoover, 1,447; General Wood, 1,024. Every detail' of a national convention was carried out wtlh care by tho Yalo men. G. G. Depew, of Buffalo, N. Y., a nephew nep-hew of Chauncey M. Depew, was temporarily tem-porarily chosen and the "keynote"! speech was delivered by K. A. Wood, I also of Buffalo. Henry R. Luce of J Shantung, China, was made permanent! chairman and nominating speeches' were then called for. I Samuel H. Insull of Chicago nomi-j nated Governor Lowden of Illinois;! Depew nominated Hoover, William D, Whitney of New Haven nominated Senator Hiram Johnson, and J. Envill j of Omaha nominated General Wood. The nominating speeches were limited to five minutes each. After two bal lots in which neither candidate had' two-thirds of the votes, it was voted to make a selecton byi a majority vote and Hoovor won. i |