Word: elizabethton
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Tennessee. Last October Herbert Hoover went to Elizabethton to make a campaign speech. Proudly its citizens led him through the shiny new mills of the Bemberg and Glanztoff artificial silk companies. He was presented with a sample suit of underwear. Shrewd Germans had invested $10,000,000 in these mills to escape the U. S. tariff. But Germans are hard taskmasters. Mill operatives worked 56 hours per week; their pay envelopes held from $8.90 to $14; overtime brought no extra money. Spurred on by the American Federation of Labor, the Elizabethton workers struck last month. The strike was settled, with...
...great as ever. But the Hoover heart beats in sincere, if muffled, sympathy with Southern white men. His instinct is to heed their wishes. He knows the sting of the "nigger lover" cry, which was raised bitterly albeit futilely against him in the campaign. In his Elizabethton, Tenn., speech, he said, by way of promise: "I believe . . . that appointive offices must be filled by those who deserve the confidence and respect of the communities they serve...
...Nominee went to Elizabethton largely under the auspices of onetime (1921-23) Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claudius Hart Huston and U. S. Representative Brazilla Carroll Reece. The leader of a neighboring and equally Republican district in Tennessee is Representative J. Will Taylor. The Messrs. Huston and Reece have sharp intraparty differences with Mr. Taylor. But it was planned, for harmony's sake, to let Mr. Taylor be as big a lion as anyone in receiving Nominee Hoover. It was planned that, at the luncheon of the day, Mr. Reece should rise to welcome the Nominee, and that Mr. Taylor...
...Elizabethton is in one of the most strongly Republican counties in the South. Besides the local enthusiasts and the doubtful Democrats, throngs from both parties had made the pilgrimage, coming even from Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and Kentucky to hear...
Motoring to Elizabethton from the rail-road station at Childress, the Nominee's motorcade was delayed by street-jaming crowds. Factory whistles droned. Bands played "California, Here I Come" and "Dixie." Bombs burst in midair. The cheering was continuous. There was no heckling...