Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Middleton Cox, the Democratic nominee of eight years ago, went to the Border to counteract the big Republican push there. At Nashville, Tenn., he flayed the inconsistencies of loud-spoken Senator Borah and read long passages from Borah speeches in the Senate flaying Hoover in 1919. He described the Hon. Mr. Borah as a "political adventurer who, in some fashion or other has been under every political flag that has flown in the breeze from the days of free silver until...
...heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled on him, the masses adored...
...Democratic candidate for the presidency received only 136 electoral votes. Eight years ago he received 127 votes. If the Republicans wish to defeat Smith so that he will stay defeated, they will have to leave him fewer votes this year than were obtained by either Davis in 1924 or Cox in 1920. Otherwise he is likely to turn up four years hence stronger than ever. Smith as a presidential candidate is often compared to Andrew Jackson. Old Hickory was beaten the first time he ran but lived to be twice victorious. If Smith runs much ahead of Cox and Davis...
...trade weekly of journalism, polled the executives of 925 newspapers throughout the U. S. Their composite prediction: Hoover, 16,271,276 popular and 387 electoral votes; Smith, 12,863,936 popular and 126 electoral votes. (126 electoral votes is low; John William Davis got 136 in 1924, James Middleton Cox...
...Clag" by his cronies, is darkly massive, fastidious, redolent of success. He suggests no garret-dweller, speaks in a deep voice of suave enthusiasms. He is not easy to classify, being proud of the scope of his work. He has done fanciful murals for the home of Mrs. James Cox Brady, widow of the financier, at Bernardsville, N. J., for Capitalist Harry F. Guggenheim's Long Island estate. Elsie de Wolfe, famed mistress of decor, paid a professional compliment when she engaged Artist Wilson to bedizen her shop. He has designed silver, rugs, furniture, including a modernistic multi-colored...