Word: beavers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...case, the Vare-Mellon episode and the publicity it received were unfortunate for Hooverism. One cartoonist portrayed Boss Vare boosting the Beaver Man up a tree to get the Presidential apple. On the seat of the Beaver Man's white trousers appeared the dirty print of a smudgy, pudgy hand. In any campaign of Hoover v. Smith, if Republicans point to Smith's rich backer, Contractor William Kenny, Democrats will point back at Hoover's friend, Contractor Vare. If Tammany Hall is viewed with alarm, so will be the notorious voting of tombstones, alley cats, children...
...radio was going. Shortly after the monstrous voice of John L. McNab was heard, at about eight o'clock, the radio sounded as if it had broken. It began to roar, hum, shriek, blare, clatter. The Beaver Man's name had been placed before the convention...
...greatest moment in the Beaver Man's life up to that time did not arrive until the actual telegram came and he could issue his acceptance...
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...