Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ozark, Ala. where, a power in local Democracy, he is in considerable demand as a public speaker. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, he fought down the Ku Klux Klan when it sprouted intolerantly in his district, had the courage in 1928 to stump for Alfred Emanuel Smith when James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin was trying to turn the State over to the Hoovercrats. He helped to oust Heflin...
...Nominee Hoover's consideration of possible Democratic candidates. His friends told him that, on a Resubmission plank, he could probably beat Franklin Delano Roosevelt running on a Repeal platform. Newton Diehl Baker or Albert Cabell Ritchie as outright Wets would possibly be harder for him to defeat. Alfred Emanuel Smith, pledged to Repeal, would be far stronger than in 1928 because of economic conditions but it was unlikely that he could win out over the Republican nominee. As the President figured it out alone in the White House, a damp G. O. P. against a dripping Democracy could probably...
President Hoover spent his second week-end on the Rapidan mulling over relief legislation. Senate Democrats had come forward with a program which called for a half-billion dollar Treasury bond issue for public works. Speaker Garner would double that figure. Other Democrats, William Randolph Hearst and Alfred Emanuel Smith among them, were asking even more. Upon all such propositions President Hoover frowned severely...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith last week went Connecticut with 16 votes and New Jersey with 32. Total Smith vote: 100. ¶ At Warm Springs, Ga. Candidate Roosevelt last week not only re-introduced the "forgotten man" as a campaign issue but also brought forth a new figure-"the forgotten child." To Kiwanians he quoted Thomas Jefferson's last letter: "The mass of mankind was not born with saddles on their backs, nor were a favored few born booted and spurred, ready to ride mankind." Declared the New York Governor: "I think that statement is just as true today...
...Bayard Swope, Detroit's Fisher Brothers. Senator Norbeck was amazed to learn that Comedian Eddie Dowling also profited, though making no deposit. There was a strong political flavor to the pool, but Mr. Kenny's, Mr. Raskob's and Mr. Meehan's good friend Alfred Emanuel Smith was not listed by name...