Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weakness in the debatable territory. The Republican farmers in the section from Illinois west have an old prejudice against him which is difficult to remove by explanations, especially since he is lined up against them on the McNary-Haugen bill. The Republican big business men of the East have, so far as one can ascertain their state of mind, a rather subtle but deep distrust of his temperament and his philosophy. They seem to feel that Mr. Hoover thinks too highly of his own judgment in business affairs and that his judgment is not so good as it is supposed...
...same morning as the World's editorial, the New York Herald Tribune, outstanding G. O. P. organ in the East, stoutly stated in its leading editorial: "The Hoover campaign continues to make steady progress over a wide territory...
Last week was Smith Week among the Democrats. East coast, West coast, all around the land, the Smith candidacy seemed to have reached a new high-tide line. In Washington, a Southern Senator who would not permit his name to be quoted because he and his State have been thoroughly anti-Smith, said: "Smith already is nominated." Other Washington politicos were discussing, not the probability of the nomination but its manner. Perhaps, they said, it could be managed by acclamation, which would be a very good thing for the chances of the Democracy in November, the precise reverse of much...
Looking for the American counterparts of Oxford and Cambridge, persons in the East unquestionably think of Harvard, Yale and Princeton. In the three types of men they turn out there are exceedingly interesting contrasts which any outside observer must have noted...
...Egger Barnett '28 of Clinton, Mo.; Henry Thomas Dolan '28 of Scranton, Pa.; James Latimer McLane ocC. of Garrison, Md.; John Douglas Merriam '28 of Newton, N. J.; Nathan Marsh Pusey '28 of Council Bluffs, la.; Laurence James Rittenband '29 of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Russell Thornley Sharpe '28 of East Greenwich, R. I.; Richard Thomas Sherman '28 of Algona, Ia.; Harold Strauss '28 of New York City; Edward Carl Wilkins '28 of Springfield, Mass. The two alternates are: George Barry Bingham '28 of Glenview, Ky., and Carl Harmon Hartwig '28 of Lawrence, Mass...