Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He called the Prohibition issue "a sentimental referendum." He said Democratic tariff proposals could only result in "some oblique movement . . . and destroy prosperity." He was talking to and about "the average vote.'' "The average voter senses this . . . and it will be the average voter who determines the result...
¶ Twoscore Harvard professors, including Charles Townsend Copeland, Felix Frankfurter, Frank William Taussig, Kuno Franke, Bliss Perry, Ralph Barton Perry, Francis Bowes Sayre. Reasons: ". . . Neither the continued association of the Republican candidate with the reactionary element of the party nor his public utterances during the campaign give us any reason...
Penetrating behind the electoral votes predicted in 1924 to the ratios of popular votes then predicted by the Literary Digest, Democrats last week pointed to wider margins of error. Dr Fabian Franklin, Manhattan economist-publicist, in a debate by letter with Editor William Seaver Woods of the Literary Digest, compared...
Bilbo: I have a hunch he's going to win. . . . It's a funny election. For the first time in the history of the country the bootleggers and preachers are lined up on the same side-fighting for Hoover.*
The sources of the Democratic fund will, especially in the event of Smith's election, be closely scrutinized after Nov. 6 by the Congressional committee appointed for that purpose. The list of donors up to last week was interesting in itself.