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September 11, 1927

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WOOD SEES COOLIDGE STILL IN THE RACE; Indiana Representative Voices Opinion of Many That He Will Be Drafted. HOOVER IS HIS NEXT CHOICE Declares That Secretary Has Popular Appeal and Is of Required Calibre. URGES MERCHANT MARINE Trip Abroad Convinces Him That Fleet Needs Balancing In Intermediate Tonnage.

By Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. -- Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana, Chairman of the Republican Congresisonal Campaign Committee, who will direct the races of Republican candidates for House seats in 1928, believes, like Charles E. Hughes and many others, that President Coolidge will be renominated by the Republican National Convention next year and will be re-elected.

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Keith Holman

1927Keith Holman, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2011)[†]

Keith Victor Holman, MBE was an Australian Rugby League footballer, a national and state representative Halfback whose club career was played with Western Suburbs between 1949 and 1961. He has since been named as one of Australia’s finest rugby league players of the 20th century. After retiring as player, Holman was coach of Wests and later became one of the game's top-level referees. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1977.

G. David Schine

1927G. David Schine, American soldier and businessman (died 1996)[†]

Gerard David Schine, better known as G. David Schine or David Schine, was the wealthy heir to a hotel chain fortune who became a central figure in the Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954 in his role as the chief consultant to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Later in life, he became a part of the film/television industry. He was the executive producer for the 1971 film The French Connection.