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A song entitled "He's Our Al" was dedicated for Smith in 1928, written by A. Seymour Brown and Albert Von Tilzer. The Al Smith Dinner, first held in 1945 by the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, is an annual dinner to raise funds for Catholic charities in New York. It was typically attended by presidential candidates for much of the 20th ...
Al Smith, Governor of New York, was a candidate for President of the United States in the 1928 election.His run was notable in that he was the first Catholic nominee of a major party, he opposed Prohibition, and he enjoyed broad appeal among women, who had won the right of suffrage in 1920.
The Compleat Al is a mockumentary about the life of "Weird Al" Yankovic, from his birth in 1959, to 1985. It was partially written by Yankovic and directed by Jay Levey. An abbreviated version premiered on August 7, 1985 on the Showtime network before the full film was released on video on September 25, 1985.
The pair, who married in 2014, were seen embracing, laughing and sharing a kiss at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on Thursday. In a video posted to X , Hines, 59, was seen stroking ...
Vice President Harris will address an annual charity dinner in New York via a recorded video message, organizers said Thursday ahead of the event. Harris’s campaign previously announced she ...
Former President Donald Trump said Friday that Fox News staffers helped him write his Al Smith charity dinner speech, in which he cracked jokes and insulted his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
By early 1924, Smith began preparing an effort to again seek the Democratic nomination. Leading the effort was Tammany chief Charles Murphy. [5]The campaign's early planning largely was organized in Albany, New York, which functioned as the location campaign's initial headquarters.
The convention [1] resulted in the nomination of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for president and Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas for vice president. The convention was the first held by either party in the South since the Civil War. It was also the first to nominate a Roman Catholic for president, Al Smith.