Word: booming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hilles of New York, National Secretary Roy Owen West of Illinois. Primarily their meeting was to arrange housing details of the Kansas City convention but they could not deny that they talked politics, too. What with news from Pennsylvania that Secretary Mellon had ordered an uninstructed delegation, the Hoover boom last week seemed overshadowed by a bogie named Illinois-Massachusetts-New York-Pennsylvania. This bogie would answer first to the voice of President Coolidge and last to whatever candidate seemed best next June to its conjurors...
...caucus system prevailed, he was at the mercy of the State Bosses, Mayor Thompson of Chicago and Governor Len Small. Lowdenites felt better about the East, too. Following their still-pond-no-more-moving policy, State Bosses Hilles and Morris of New York made known that any old boom might come to their State and try to get delegates. The small Lowden headquarters in Manhattan closed, but only because the Lowdenites were going to make bigger & better efforts among upState farmers...
James A. Reed, Missouri's smoldering Democrat, let his boom be taken "out in the open"?for the third or fourth time since early Autumn. "Another Andrew Jackson," was the cry. This time, friends of Alfred Emanuel Smith were not alarmed. Reed men, it was understood, were to organize delegations in States lack- ing "favorite sons." The probable result: having been instructed for a Wet, Reed delegates would, if and when his chances died at the convention, have only to exercise religious tolerance to swing to the other outstanding Wet, Candidate Smith. And Senator Reed is the author...
Commenting on German prosperity. Dr. Koehler frankly admitted that his pessimistic budget calculations of last year have been happily rendered incorrect by the steady decline in unemployment and increase in taxable revenues. "But," added he, with characteristic caution, "the German economic boom seems to have reached its highest point...
Evans Woollen, Indianapolis banker. He is sincere; he talked low tariff; but his boom did not impress...