Word: gamaliel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard had voted in the Spring of 1920, the election would have gone, eight years prematurely, to Herbert Hoover. When a smoke-filled room nominated Harding for the job that summer, the College got right in step, giving the Great Gamaliel the nod over Gov. Cox by 270 votes. But the Democratic campaign at College featured a major address by Cox in the Union and a boost from President Eliot. These two factors now made the Democrats much stronger at Harvard than at other Eastern schools...
...better cooperation with government; to an implementing of Franklin Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter and a system of world security. The issues would not be decided until 1944. But 1943 was not too soon to begin asking whether business would this time help deliver something better than Warren Gamaliel Harding's return to "Normalcy...
Died. Harry Micajah Daugherty, 81, ex-U.S. Attorney General (1921-24); of heart disease; in Columbus, Ohio. In 1920 "President-maker" Daugherty maneuvered his longtime crony Warren Gamaliel Harding to the Republican nomination as a compromise candidate, got the Attorney Generalship as his reward. A year later his impeachment was sought on 14 charges of malfeasance but the move fell through in the House. A Senate committee prying into the "Teapot Dome" oil scandal suspected his involvement; it was unable to prove it. Shortly afterward he resigned under pressure. He was indicted for graft involving the Alien Property Custodian...
That very suite (308-09) was historic before Harry Hopkins' advent: there, about 2 a.m. on the morning of June 12, 1920, a sweating, anxious group of G. O. P. Old Guardsmen had chosen to nominate romanesque Warren Gamaliel Harding, fulfilling Harry Daugherty's prophecy and indelibly stamping into the language a special meaning for his phrase: ". . . smoke-filled room...
Twenty years ago the U. S. deliberately turned its back on a world made safe for Democracy, elected Ohio's Warren Gamaliel Harding President, sang How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On the Farm and swore by the Founding Fathers: never again...