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...done his bit and more for the President. At Dayton Secretary of State Stimson proclaimed President Hoover "a real fighting Quaker, thoroughly aroused, smashing down his opponents' positions one by one with irresistible logic." Secretary of the Treasury Mills had worn his voice down to a hoarse croak. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, unable to restrain his language longer, blurted out that Governor Roosevelt was "a common, garden variety of liar." Montclair, N. J. put up 327 street flags for the coming of Secretary of the Navy Adams. After a protest against their use on a political occasion authorities ordered...
...hoot-toot, toot! the steamboat Cape Girardeau appeared, swung a wide circle on the muddy waters and churned its broad nose upstream against the slippery chocolate bank. Whereupon a brass band aboard the Cape Girardeau let go full blast. And the voice of a choking giant began to croak through amplifiers: "-Good roads-used to peddle milk in Kankakee-in his own ward he got 700 votes against but 25 for his distinguished opponents-your support for the Republican ticket-cross in the circle at the top -don't change doctors in the midst of an illness...
...Governor Thatcher's poetry is objectionable from every point of view. Something should be done by those in authority." Governor Thatcher's critics at the Tivoli Hotel parodied as follows: Crow, cocks, crow, from sunset until dawn; Yelp, dogs, yelp, in torture unto me; Moo, cows, moo; Croak, frogs, croak; Make life a hell ; 'tis all we ask of thee. Nominee Thatcher was first elected to the House ten years ago. In Georgia, Charles Robert Crisp, Congressman famed for his courageous fight for the sales-tax (TIME, Aug. 8 et ante) fought Governor Richard Brevard Russell...
...Politicians of the Harding-Coolidge era (1921-29) the phrase "Dollar Wheat" was the sorriest raven-croak of agricultural depression. It suggested unpaid mortgages, political revolts, elections lost. When in July, 1923, wheat dropped to 96^ per bu. there was something akin to panic in Republican Washington, with wild talk that a Republican could not be elected President the following year...
Soon M. Laval got thus patriotic guarantee he sought by a smash vote of 500 to 78, the largest majority his Government has won on an important issue this year. But Deputy Henri Tasso arose to croak like Epic Poet Tasso...