Word: boomings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philip M. Tucker, the Boston banker who last fortnight started and then obediently stopped a chain-letter boom for the Coolidge renomination (TIME, Dec. 5), could not refrain from say- ing: "The response to the petition sent out by me was like the bursting of a dam which held back the expression of the people looking for some outlet to show their faith in Calvin Coolidge...
...State Senator Clarence F. Buck of Illinois, manager of the Lowden boom, last week quoted Vice President Dawes as having said: "Anyone who questions my sincerity in backing Lowden, questions my integrity...
...Another cause of Presidential annoyance during the week was a well-intentioned but (according to President Coolidge) ill-advised chain-letter boom for his renomination, started but obediently stopped by Philip M. Tucker, Boston banker...
This ta-ra-boom vibrated over Illinois, over Indiana, over Ohio, and set quivering the editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer, a newspaper which once had individuality and still has prestige. Its editors threw off their eyeshades; reached for their fifes, ever ready among the lead pencils on their desks; and shrilled in tune with the Tribune: "This institution [University of Wisconsin], like many others, is said to be honeycombed with radical doctrinaires, internationalists and aliens. The boys have been led to believe that they should refuse to submit to military training and discipline. Why cannot all such academic proponents...
...Beside Mr. Lowden at the game, with fur-lined overcoat and grey fedora to match Mr. Lowden's, sat his guest and good friend, Vice President Dawes. Gossip has said that Vice President Dawes, who has been encouraging the Lowden boom, would inherit the Lowden delegates when the Lowden boom collapses. Gossip has even said that the friends have an understanding to this effect. But Vice President Dawes has roundly denied that eh would utilize his friend as a stalking horse...