Word: gov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the first quarter of the century the Democratic party was awakened by its metropolitan members to the realization that politics had become Big Business and Big Business politics in the U. S. Long before Gov. Smith's nomination it was known that he would refashion the popular concept of his party, perhaps by a preelection indication of outstanding businessmen whom he would ask to help him conduct the government if he were elected (TIME, March...
...city knows "The Gut" and draws gangsters from it, contributes gangsters to it. Women without escorts do not walk through "The Gut," by day or by night. The district is "segregated," and over it rules a Democratic ward politician, unofficial boss of Albany County, close friend of Lieut. Gov. Edwin Corning, by name Daniel P. O'Connell...
President Sen. J. Thomas Heflin V. Pres Gov. Ed Jackson S of State William Hale Thompson S of War Rev. Norris of Ft. Worthf S of Treas Will Hays** S of Navy Albert E. Fall S of Int Harry F. Sinclair Atty General Geo. Remus Post M General Dr. Frederick Cooktt S of Com Will Rogers S of Labor Emma Goldman S of Agri H. L. Mencken...
...frontispiece [Gov. Smith], April 30, gives me enough of TIME for all time. Please cancel. . . . I will not have it in my home...
...consulted in rounding up delegates at Kansas City and in collecting campaign funds afterwards. Among the politicians themselves there is in addition a belief that Mr. Hoover's personal prestige is not of a kind which would stand up well in competition with the intimate personal quality of Gov. Smith's popularity. Mr. Hoover's virtues suggest the clean precision of the scientific man. They are abstract and intellectualized. He has not the flair of a man like Vice President Dawes for heating the blood, and he does not convey that sense of apostolic authority which surrounds...