Word: goffe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That convention is going to nominate me. Everything indicates it. Hoover won't be nominated. Of that I am sure. Neither will Lowden, nor Dawes, nor Watson, nor Goff. It will develop that I will be the compromise and every one will be happy...
Candidates Watson and Goff, favorite sons of Indiana and West Virginia, respectively, and neither of them with a Chinaman's chance for anything but private plaudits and party patronage, were both expected to attend, the small-eyed, affable Watson certainly, the less prominent Goff not so certainly...
Favorite Son Goff beat Candidate Hoover. It was a preferential primary, leaving the delegates uninstructed, and three of the 19 delegates elected were regarded as Hooverites. But the popular vote stood-Goff 120,337; Hoover, 105,876. The usual comments were made: 1) That the Hoover boom had passed its peak, would now collapse; 2) That the Beaver Man had made a splendid showing...
...McNary Bill passed the Senate 53 votes to 23. Only seven Senators from west of the Mississippi voted or paired against it-Borah, Phipps, Shortridge, Warren, Smoot, Walsh, King. Of the Senate's eight Presidential possibilities, the Messrs, Borah, Goff and Walsh were the only ones who stood against what Honest John Farmer is said to want...
Said Candidate Goff: "I am not and have never been a stalking horse...