Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reflect that:-You cannot increase the consumption of a good by lowering its price (low price=:cheap atmosphere=low esteem...
...Kansas City convention last year, Lawyer Hope was much in the company of fellow-Manhattanites who were standing pat for Coolidge, groaning over Hooverism. When Jeremiah Milbank of Manhattan, one of Lawyer Hope's great & good clients, was made Eastern Fiscal Agent of the Hoover campaign, Lawyer Hope and many another Manhattanite felt better. Now, 16 months after Kansas City, Lawyer Hope is well content to have direct supervision of: Internal Revenue collections, national banks (through the Comptroller of the Currency), the making of all money, the Secret Service...
Riled by such insubordination President Hoover retorted: ". . . The appointive responsibility rests in the President, not in any organization. ... No longer shall public offices be regarded as mere political patronage. . . . The success of the Republican party rests upon good government, not upon patronage, and Florida will have good government so far as it is within my power to give it. ... I note your demand that the organization shall dictate appointments in Florida, irrespective of merit or my responsibility. I enclose herewith copy of a statement I issued last March [expressing a willingness to cooperate only with reputable Republicans in South]. That...
...Deeply grieved was President Hoover last week to hear physicians despair of saving the life of Senator Theodore Elijah Burton of Ohio, the President's good friend and campaign supporter, ill for weeks following an attack of influenza (TIME, Oct. 14). Back from Ohio, President Hoover again visited the dying scholar, statesman, peace-lover, whose interest in waterways was recognized by Rooseveltian appointment to chairmanship of the Inland Waterways Commission 22 years ago. Mr. Burton died full of years (77) and honor...
Holy Cross was in third place, scoring 101 points. W. Brennan, star of the Purple team, placed second in the race, in the very good time of 23 min., 57 sec failure to gain a lower group score. The poorer showing of the rest of the team was responsible for Holy Cross...