Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Simeon D. Fess, baldish Ohioan, Harding admirer, Hoover Keynoter, spent time during the week studying and explaining why Hoover would carry New York State. To the embarrassment of non-whispering Republicans he also explained: "This is the first time in history during a national political campaign that we have on one side all of the loose element of morals and on the other the very highest and best of morals...
...explanation that Hooverism was not officially responsible for anything Mrs. Willebrandt might say. Senator Borah, one of Hooverism's biggest voices, was invited to address a Methodist gathering at Peoria, Ill. He declined. Mrs. Willebrandt's name was left off Hooverism's official list of campaign speeches for the near future and it was stated that the next Willebrandt speech would not be distributed from official headquarters...
...there was no official repudiation of "Take to your pulpits!," a cry which may well become an historic feature of the Presidential campaign of 1928. And there was no visible squelching of Worker Willebrandt. She promised to appear and speak again in Ohio, on Sept. 23 at Lorain. Clear-eyed, evangelical, she said: "I shall continue ... as my conscience dictates...
Nominee Smith, with a formidable collection of advisers and impediments, entered the Midwest last week on the first militant move of his campaign (see Democrats). Missouri's inflammatory Senator James A. Reed was about to pass through to arouse the Northwest. Democratic money was pouring into Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, the Dakotas. The Brown Derby was out to line up the 1924 LaFollette vote...
...heated political campaign between Smith and Hoover promises to make the Harvard Union program this fall the busiest in years. The Governing Board of the Union through its president, the Honorable Frederick P. Cabot, will invite several of the prominent political lights to the Union for dinner and luncheon engagements to be followed by addresses on the issues in the campaign. The Debating Union will hold at least two meetings before November 6. Hoover and Smith Clubs are being organized through out the University and the majority of their meetings will be held at the Union...