Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press he said: "Well, it has been a long, hard job. . . . I feel satisfied with the campaign I have made...
Other of Dr. Work's subordinates said that all of Mr. Raskob's evidence was "framed up." Democrats were indignant and the episode was one of the bitterest in a bitter campaign. Said the Republican Chicago Tribune (echoed by its pro-Smith Manhattan satellite, The Daily News...
...Republican Party has these two allies and its campaign with them is sufficiently apparent to expose it to the properly indignant language of Governor Smith. The Tribune feels precisely as he does in the matter...
Surrounded by intimates in the chamber music room of Carnegie Hall, Governor Smith waited for the last (as he had thought) Hoover hour to pass. Then he spoke his final words to "my radio audience." It was perhaps the best speech of his whole campaign; a review of his own executive record, a call to civic duty, and thanks to all who had helped him in his "long, hard job." His final attack was: "The American people will never stand for a dictator any more than they are today satisfied with a policy of silence." His final appeal...
National figures were few in the closing days of the Democratic campaign. John William Davis kept at it over the radio. James Middleton Cox strove along the Border. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, famed baseballer, repeatedly told Midwesterners to disregard the Wall Street odds. "Don't forget Wall Street bet 3 to 1 against the Yankees in the World Series. Wall Street will be wrong again...