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Kansas City was plastered with posters asking: "Who but Hoover?" At an elevator near the Beaver Man's headquarters in the Baltimore Hotel, one of these posters was just above a larger sign-"HOOVER"-with an arrow pointing...
Through Kansas City, early in the week, passed a more cheerful figure than either the Beaver Man or the Modern Cincinnatus. This one, swart, short, mustachioed, had played a different game from theirs, a waiting game. Redskin ancestors on his grandmother's side had doubtless played the same game often. Out hunting with other braves, a good plan had been to let the others stalk, and perhaps frighten, the deer, which then would come along the runway where an artful man sat ready. The Indian-blooded Senator from Kansas had seen the waiting game work well on race tracks...
Candidate Hoover, the Administration's busy but not unworried Beaver Man, said he would stay at his desk in Washington. He had duties. He was the leading candidate and his lead rested on his record. To speak for him in Kansas City went James W. Good, who managed Mr. Coolidge in the West four years ago. Mr. Good put up big placards asking: "Who but Hoover...
...preferential primary, leaving the delegates uninstructed, and three of the 19 delegates elected were regarded as Hooverites. But the popular vote stood-Goff 120,337; Hoover, 105,876. The usual comments were made: 1) That the Hoover boom had passed its peak, would now collapse; 2) That the Beaver Man had made a splendid showing...
...minutes later Hooverites who did not switch off their radios after the Beaver Man had finished, were startled, shocked, prodded into indignation by another voice which denounced Candidate Hoover as a "tool of the capitalists...