Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that you have told us just how wet Al Smith is, let us hear just how dry Herbert Hoover is. In Hoover's answer to Borah's questionnaire there seems to be a groping for vagueness. I wonder if Hoover has always held to the teachings of his Quaker fathers' during all these years with the British...
Following Secretary Hoover's answer to the Borah questionnaire, Lawyer Clarence Darrow said: "I don't think Hoover is any drier than I am. I ought to know. I have had a drink with him" (TIME, March 5). Last week, questions were submitted asking Nominee Hoover to confirm or deny the Darrow statement and also to record: 1) whether Mr. Hoover has taken a drink since Prohibition; 2) whether Mr. Hoover would take a drink now if assured the liquor was legally possessed. Nominee Hoover's secretary, chubby George Akerson, refused to transmit the questions...
William C. Hunneman, one of the directors of the Carded Woollen Manufacturers' Association made public his answer to Mr. Cushing. Mr. Hunneman recalled that "for many years it has been the practice of your party and mine to give secretly to large contributors to campaign funds the assurance as to what policies would be put into effect." Mr. Hunneman recalled that William Howard Taft promised revision of the wool tariff in 1908, that President Taft later excoriated as "indefensible" the helpful wool schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. In short, before Mr. Hunneman would give money to Hooverism...
...happiest moment of my life, to find that others appreciate the Governor as I do." They tried to put a baby donkey into her arms. "Send it up to Albany," she said, laughing and crying at the same time. She dispensed scores of autographs, shook hundreds of hands, nodded answer to a thousand salutes. She went straight home to Albany, with only one brief stopover, in St. Louis, to take tea with President Lewis Warrington Baldwin of the Missouri Pacific R. R. It was really a very simple experience, during which Mrs. Smith at no time seemed nonplussed...
Suppose a telephone rings in an apartment when the owner is present; but, for reasons of his own, he does not wish to answer the telephone. How can he satisfy his curiosity as to who was calling...