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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First. A President didn't get that way through being "unpolitical." Herbert Hoover's Addresses Upon the American Road, 1933-1938, is crowded with proof that an ex-President never stops campaigning for the good old party-and to hell with the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...would appear, therefore, that, according to the election returns of the last four general elections in the State of New Mexico, Senator Chavez has been other than "unadmired" by the good and kind people of the State of New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...mind the Senate's estimate of the two men. The day Mr. Chavez was sworn in to the Senate, a group of that body's most distinguished members (Norris, Johnson, Nye, La Follette, Shipstead) pointedly left the chamber. That Senator Chavez is tea-colored, like the good U. S. constituents who elect him, is neither disgraceful nor untrue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...political measure Garner is a good-natured loblolling cowhand who, through the political hocus-pocus that nowadays passes for government, has been drawing his breath, cigar and salary for seven years, and saying nothing, because he knows nothing, while twelve million people have had the opportunity, on relief, to become inured to the blessings of government by "the common people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...amusing letter attributing this change to a desire to help a certain race in this country, which is credited, in this note, with doing most of the 'trading' and which, they say, is not interested in American traditions. . . . But . . . how about remembering how the Yankees always were good traders and perhaps some of them still are in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Farthest North | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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