Word: boomings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, whose boom for the nomination swelled only a few months ago, seems to have shrunken into little more than a candidate for Pennsylvania delegate-at-large to the Republican Convention. All the formidable rivals of Coolidge seem to have withered in the bud, excepting only Senator Hiram Johnson of California. There are some who see Senator Johnson's boom as already suffering from a drought of public support...
Whence come these things? How has the Coolidge boom attained such results? Where is the usual noisy bandwagon of a Presidential candidate parading the streets for Calvin Coolidge? The answer of observers is that "Calvin's Campaign" is unique, that it treads unostentatiously, that it advances itself by little things: unexpected invitations to call on the Chief Executive; White House answers to the letters of Tom, Dick and Harry, written with flattering conscientiousness; broad-minded patronage; a keen little slogan, "Keep Coolidge"; the personal touch from the finger that starts so many things by pressing a little button...
...Governor of Oklahoma, moved to Manhattan and became associated with what is known as "Wall Street." His original business ventures in railroads, real estate and other Oklahoma activities had left him with a desire for a wider financial field and the funds to use in it. The Oklahoma oil boom led him into speculative oil promotion and financing, and there grew up a group of stocks known as the "Haskell Companies," which were active on the Wall Street exchanges...
...result which the reader of these annual homilies upon business deduces is that while 1924 should be prosperous, still we must not expect a boom or borrow too heavily at the bank...
Hiram W. Johnson. The Senator from California last week watched the rapid and vigorous expansion of his boom under the direction of his able and active manager, Frank H. Hitchcock. Johnson has not the organization backing of Coolidge, and he has alienated some Progressives who formerly supported him, such as Borah and Norris, by being "conveniently absent" from the Senate when the attempt was made to oust Newberry, and by voting for the Fordney-McCumber tariff. Nevertheless his campaign is professional, well-financed, well-organized -and to be reckoned with...