Word: davision
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Full Measure. Reasons omitted, the Hoover victory loomed as one to which Republicans would be able to point with effective pride for several political generations. Against the most formidable Democrat since Wilson, Hoover had won the most overwhelming majority since Grant smothered Tammany's Seymour (1868). It was the...
He went over to the General Motors Building to telegraph Mr. Hoover and say goodnight to Mr. Raskob. John William Davis was there, smiling. "We're used to it," said Mr. Davis. "Maybe 25 years from now-"
Down in Oliver Street, where Alfred E. Smith came from, they took the opportunity to vote for a home boy, 610 to 66. It may also have comforted him to know that he had received more actual votes than any man who had ever previously run for President. If his...
Even before election, correspondents were eyeing friends and associates of Mr. Hoover in order to foresee his Cabinet. After the election, thousands of speculative words were penned. No one knew, but a good many thought he would retain Secretaries Mellon (Treasury) Davis (War) and New (Postmaster-General). And nearly everyone...