Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubtful Maryland. Democratic Senator Bruce, defending his seat against Republican Phillips Lee Goldsborough, exhorted his supporters also to support Nominee Smith. (Here, too, the gubernatorial situation was in the Brown Derby's favor. Governor Ritchie, wet, popular. Democrat, was campaigning for a third term...
...House of Representatives in the 71st Congress. The effect of these campaigns upon the presidential result is almost nil. except in special cases. In allegedly wavering Florida, the last minute efforts of Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the Great Commoner, Democratic candidate for Congress, will doubtless help the Brown Derby. Similarly effective, for Hooverism, has been and will be Ruth Hanna McCormick in faction-ridden Illinois. Lowden was her choice for the Republican nomination. But her father was Marcus Alonzo Hanna. Party regularity is her creed...
...Hoover New York Journal (Hearst) defended Nominee Smith from the "Socialist" charge. Hearst Cartoonist T. E. Powers drew a cartoon called "Wall Street Socialists." An elephant with whiskers and a silk hat scowled at a brown-derbied donkey and said: "You're a Socialist!" The donkey retorted: "Me, a Socialist? Oh! Charlie, won't you loan me your whiskers...
Spokesman Hughes spoke in Buffalo and a subtler piece of political pleading has seldom been heard. The Hughes presence, dignity, prestige and good form are almost unique in U. S. public life. Few other fig- ures could have administered so impressively the prefatory rebukes to the Brown Derby which Spokesman Hughes uttered. He charged Nominee Smith with indulging in "cheap ridicule," "diatribe," "absurd tirades." "He [Nominee Smith] has stooped too low to conquer. . . . One's sense of fairness is affronted," said Mr. Hughes. "He misrepresents the position of Mr. Hoover and attempts to distort the meaning of Mr. Hoover...
...Brown Derby's outriders, invigorated by fresh campaign developments, were ubiquitously active...