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...pronounced by Nominee Smith. To some ears, some other Smith pronunciations are "foist" (first) "poisonally" (personally) "alcoholic content (alcoholic content) "comparable" (comparable). Nominee Hoover, as radio listeners have learned, seems to say "incomparable," "prerequisite," "pardner," "ammilerate" (ameliorate). *Robert Latham Owen, onetime (1907-25) Senator, Smith bolter (TIME...
...there was ever a man," said Robert Latham Owen, outstanding Democratic "bolter" of last week (see p. 11), "fitted to be an advance agent of prosperity, it is Herbert Hoover." The "advance agent" made the first formal public speech of his Nomineehood last week, at San Francisco's Civic Centre (city hall). He found words "difficult vehicles" for thanking Californians for presenting his name to the G. O. P. He reminisced about early California, before Mayor James Rolph Jr. became a "public institution in San Francisco" and when (33 years ago) young Herbert Hoover hunted a job there...
...favor of Herbert Hoover." Then he read a long, prepared laudation of the Hoover career and character. He was asked if he felt, as a Democrat, that he could not stand for Nominee Smith. "I won't stand for him! That's worse!" cried Bolter Owen. "I am an American citizen and not a coward. I'll be damned if I'll stand for the Tammanyizing of the Government of the United States!" Nominee Smith took the news calmly. Bolter Owen used to have, and might again have, a large following. "Naturally, I am sorry," said...
...conflicted. Nominee Robinson warned his party that there was an "organized effort" to beat the ticket in the South. An anti-Smith caucus was called among Texas Democrats. A "scratch Smith" movement was reported among North Carolina Democrats. To combat this sort of thing, regular Democrats threatened to keep "bolter books" and expel from the party any Democrat who abandoned the nominees...
...willing to contribute to Empire defenses. General Hertzog was undoubtedly preoccupied instead last week, with the news that one of his chief "Nationalist" political henchmen, Dan Goetzee, had bolted to the Opposition, or loyalist "South African Party" of onetime (1919-24) South African Premier General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Bolter Goetzee, ever a law unto himself, added insult to injury by proclaiming that Premier Hertzog is taking the wrong tack at London by hinting at "secession" and will find his Cabinet threatened on his return to Cape Town...