Word: booming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More and more openly politicians are developing their strategy for the political campaign of 1924. Mr. Underwood has had his candidacy openly under way for several weeks. Mr. McAdoo has campaigned, not openly, but visibly, for several months. Among the Republicans, President Coolidge has a boom dating from August, and needing no overt expression. Four weeks ago Governor Pinchot picked his issue, without announcing his candidacy, by beginning his attack on the Administration's enforcement of prohibition. Last week a second Republican found his issue?Senator Hiram Johnson of California...
Daniel C. Roper of South Carolina was not at the capital; he was in California with his son who is ill. But Mr. Roper's work is in an advanced stage. It is he who has organized and executed the McAdoo boom. He drives the McAdoo ma- chine. Twenty years ago " Dan" Roper was a clerk in the Census Bureau. He was there for ten years. He came closer to politics in 1911 when Oscar W. Underwood, then a Representative, became Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. When Mr. Wilson became President, Dan Roper was made Assistant Postmaster General...
...when Mr. McAdoo appeared at the Capital, watchers assumed that Mr. Roper had decided it was time for the McAdoo boom to come out in the open. Mr. McAdoo had himself intimated that he might soon deliver a comprehensive statement on national issues. But the situation was complicated by Mr. McAdoo's father-in-law, Woodrow Wilson. It is generally understood that if Mr. Wilson had merely to choose who would be the next President, he would select David F. Houston, who was Secretary of Agriculture and later Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson Cabinet. At any rate...
...coincidence ? the redoubtable Jesse L. Livermore announced, apropos of nothing in particular, that he had turned bullish, that with agricultural recovery and a Euro pean settlement near at hand profits lay on the buying side, and that next year should be prosperous without becoming a boom. Stock prices soared. Can rose 5? that day, Baldwin 5½, Studebaker 5?, Steel 5?, with lesser advances throughout the list, even among the rails. Sales on the Stock Exchange passed the million mark each day the rest of the week, and prices continued to advance, fractionally but steadily...
Ralston. C. A. Greathouse, Democratic National Committeeman, furthered the boom of the present Senator and former Governor of Indiana by a modest disclaimer of Samuel Ralston's ambition coupled with an assertion of Mr. Ralston's worth: "I understand Senator Ralston's frame of mind and feel altogether safe in saying that he is not a candidate for the nomination and will not be a candidate. . . . The nation is heavily in debt and the only way to get rid of debts is to pay them. Senator Ralston understands the remedy of hard work and old-fashioned economy...