Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Hoover, having paid his respects to the Midwest on his return from Notification (TIME, Sept. 3), and having inspected the work that has been done for him there, was content to leave the region's defense to his Chicago headquarters and to Nominee Curtis, who set out from...
This year the Midwest loomed more important than ever because it was throughout the Midwest that the Hoover nomination was most bitterly opposed. In Ohio there was Willis; in Indiana, Watson; in Illinois, Lowden; in Nebraska, Norris; in Kansas, Curtisall, except Lowden and Curtis, more downright anti-Hooverish than outright...
Joseph Little Bristow, insurgent predecessor of Nominee Curtis as Senator from Kansas (1909-15), now a Washington, D. C., realtor and country gentleman. Reason: Hoover's sympathetic knowledge of the West.
Pleased, Nominee Hoover invited Nominee Curtis to attend meetings of his cabinet. Pleased, Nominee Curtis accepted.
Senator Curtis then made 14 solemn promises, of which the following phrase was typical: "To enforce the laws without fear or favor." He discussed Farm Relief for twelve paragraphs, suggesting that a small, nonpartisan, joint committee of Congress be appointed to work out a plan. To Law Enforcement he gave...