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...broadcaster (Forhan's Toothpaste), charging $20 an appointment, she took in about $50.000 a year. Famed forecasts: death of England's King Edward VII ("The stars would be grievously afflicted"), death of Tammany Leader Charles Francis Murphy of acute indigestion ("Unfriendly stomach"). Col. Theodore Roosevelt's defeat by Alfred Emanuel Smith for 1920 New York Governor ("He couldn't be elected to the school board in his native village of Oyster Bay"). Love and money were Evangeline Adams's chief astrological problems; love chiefly before January 1930, money after January 1930. Her specialty: finance...
James Middleton Cox, the party's 1920 nominee, urged his Ohio to vote a Change. At Mineola, N. Y. John William Davis, 1924 nominee, said approximately the same thing. At Troy Alfred Emanuel Smith, 1928 nominee, ridiculed President Hoover for trying to frighten the nation...
Governor Roosevelt did not define his character with equal precision, did not say who he was, where he lived, what he did. When Alfred Emanuel Smith first beheld Mr. Roosevelt's tactics he cried "Demagog!" at his old friend "Frank," hotly declared he would "take off my coat & vest and fight to the end against any candidate" who tried to set class against class, rich against poor. But as the campaign progressed, the Governor continued to flatter and comfort a vague and various mass of the electorate by charging that President Hoover had overlooked them in administering Depression relief...
...days last week Republican managers thought that they had a Burchardism in Alfred Emanuel Smith's campaign speech at Newark.* There the 1928 Democratic nominee had bitterly attacked the G. O. P. as a party of "double-dealing hypocrites" who four years ago effected his defeat by masking religious bigotry under Dry fanaticism. The Smith speech reverberated through the nation. Republican scouts gleefully reported that it had helped their party in the Midwest. The Republican Press, usually friendly to the Brown Derby, loudly lamented the resurrection of 1928 ghosts. Socialist Norman Thomas expressed a widespread view: "If Al Smith...
Michael Joseph Cleary is the kind of man who likes his salesmen to call him "Mickey," has a habit of taking them off into corners to tell them Irish stories. A small-town lawyer in Blanchardville, Wis., he organized two banks, fussed with insurance, then got into politics. Governor Emanuel L. Philipp made him his counsel, then Wisconsin's insurance commissioner. He heckled the insurance companies enough to make them agree to the regulations now enforced, smiled enough to keep in the good graces of the companies. Northwestern made him a vice president in 1919. He is big, hearty...