Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Curtis also called and with this visit the Hoover campaign for election formally began. The Hoover-Curtis conference, which lasted several hours, was for the purpose of drafting a new slate of officers for the National Republican Committee. Observers estimated that this conference consisted of about 98% Hoover decision, plus 2% Curtis suggestion...
...Work. With continued uncommunicativeness, except as to the factual results, the Republican National Committee's subcommittee to cooperate with the Candidates was taken into conference, Hooverized, given some luncheon, dismissed. It did leak out that the Hoover campaign is to be a businesslike affair, based on the Coolidge record, with no mudslinging at the Democrats countenanced or tolerated. Senator Moses said: "When we begin to campaign . . . we won't call him 'AP but we will refer to him as the governor of New York...
...forgotten for a minute while politicians considered the men around him, the new faces, the new commanders. First of all they saw a bland, pink-and-gray Iowa lawyer who was saying very little and looking very cheerful. He was James W. Good, who has managed the Hoover campaign, who may well become the new chairman of the Republican National Committee and who, if he does, is well assured of a good cabinet post if he wants it. Newsmen call him "Sir James" for his fine manners...
...retired when he was chairman of the pivotal Committee on Appropriations. Since then he has practiced law in Chicago and raised potatoes and angora goats in North Dakota. He met the Beaver Man in 1921, when they worked on the Budget together. He managed the Coolidge campaign in the West in 1924. When Hoover asked him a year ago to Hooverize the U. S., Good consented with pleasure. Of what he has done since, Mr. Good speaks modestly...
...doubtful if this account of the campaign machine would seem accurate to the men whom Hoover beat. To them Good's success is almost sinister. They see in him an almost Catilinian figure who, by some mysterious and influential energy, succeeded in making use of the most miscellaneous collection of backers that any nominee could have. Able political writers, well aware of this, are equally amazed at Good's adroit handling of a difficult endeavor. Wrote a thoughtful correspondent to the New York...