Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flayed "a lot of women with short skirts and long necks" for the Whispering Campaign. He cried: "Neither the Republican nor the Demo cratic platform declares in favor of Prohibition." He said: "Senator Curtis and I are dry - nobody knows how dry we are!" Also, he mixed with Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette, in an argument of the kind that is thoroughly enjoyed in a country of long adjectives and short tempers...
After citing the notorious inconsistency of Editor White in estimating public char acters, Nominee Robinson said: "Let me tell you what Mr. White has said. ... He has described Herbert Hoover as a "fat, pudgy capon sitting on eggs...
...Emporia, Editor White expostulated : "If he can cite the date and place where I declared that any capon ever sat on eggs I will give the Democratic Campaign Committee a thousand dollars. Poor as I am at arithmetic I can figure there is some thing biologically wrong about a capon sitting on eggs...
Nominee Robinson was inaccurate. Editor White was evasive. Last spring, prior to the Kansas City convention, Editor White wrote and published in his newspaper the following insult to Herbert Hoover...
...editor of the New Haven Journal-Courier sought permission to publish Mr. Taft's letter. In September 1918, Mr. Taft consented and appended a prophetic elaboration of his reasons for opposing National Prohibition. Excerpts...