Word: elizabethton
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...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...
Nominee Hoover made some history. He was the first G. O. P. nominee for President ever seen in Tennessee. He stood on a platform in a mountain meadow at Elizabethton and, in the fourth main speech of his campaign proper, addressed the whole South. He implied that he was neither an orator nor a humorist nor particularly a politician. He spoke as a Westerner, as a member of an administration whose record he thought was good, as a champion of the Home, as one who wants to "abolish poverty...
...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...
Tennessee made ready to hear three Hoover speeches-two in Johnson City, one at Elizabethton, on Oct. 6. The date for the New York speech was moved up to Oct. 13. Someone asked the Nominee if he had no superstition about that date. "No," he replied, "I haven't. Besides, it's not Friday...