Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tammany campaign, in its closing hours, has sunk from the sidewalks to the sewers* of New York," said Hooverism's chief publicist...
...wish to congratulate you on the high quality of your leadership. You are able, experienced, trustworthy and safe. Your success in the campaign seems assured, and I shall turn over the great office of President of the United States of America to your keeping, sure that it will be in competent hands in which the welfare of the people will be secure...
They were a strangely assorted collection of campaigners, supporters and voting notables who worked, spoke, contributed and gestured for a common end. It should be remembered as perhaps the greatest coalition campaign in U. S. history, beginning with the revolutionary Hoover nomination. Unaided if not opposed by the leaders in the powerful States-Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and most of the farm States-the nomination virtually tore the G. O. P. apart and put it together again with new adjustments, relations and elements. Without a very genuine popular demand it could not have been done...
Proceeding to Pueblo, Colo., the Hoover Special deposited National Chairman Dr. Work, with thanks and praise from the Nominee for his campaign assistance. Experts had credited Dr. Work with more blunders than brilliance, but 10,000 of his fellow Coloradoans heard Dr. Work briefly exonerated...
...Work pitched the letter over his shoulder onto a mail-littered table. "Oh, I'll look that over later," he said. Mr. Raskob's emissaries bore another envelope, addressed to Herbert Hoover. At the latter's campaign house, they were received by Bradley D. Nash, the number-two secretary, a cheerful young gentleman (Harvard) with nice manners. Mr. Nash was embarrassed and courteous but, of course, Mr. Raskob's emissaries left without any answer from Mr. Nash's chief...