Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State [Ohio] every man or woman who wants a drink can get it, and I am willing to ... assert that whoever wants liquor anywhere in any State can easily procure it. Senator Borah knows that. Mr. Hoover knows it. Mr. Coolidge knows it. And so does Governor Smith. The difference is that Governor Smith frankly tells the truth about it. ... Now why can't we be perfectly honest and candid and frank with each other on this subject? . . . It's not a new thing for public men of character to oppose Prohibition. Roosevelt did it, and Taft...
...Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland left his own re-election campaign to go north with speeches for Nominee Smith. At Camden, N. J., he warned voters that Nominee Hoover is "a cold, silent individual who has refrained from discussing the issues of the campaign because he considers the average voter a boob." In the Bronx, he said: "This anti-Catholic crusade may or may not be serious so far as Smith's election is concerned, but it is vitally serious itself. . " . Once started, no man can tell its end. Remember that intolerance breeds intolerance, just as hate breeds...
...town gloria in excelsis! But now the Derby was skimming out into the chill dew of New England's rural Republicanism. There were fears lest it emerge bedraggled. So the Smith Special hurried until it reached Blackstone, one of Massachusetts' most safely Democratic cities. There "safe" throngs throated the governor as he embarked on an experiment shrewd in motive. He would leave his train and motor to Providence, R. I., through the mill towns of the Blackstone Valley which are traditionally Republican, French-Canadian, wet and Roman Catholic. Let the human test-tubes boil...
Arriving in Baltimore, Governor Smith joined a motorcade which slowly wended its way along Cathedral street, which was lined on both sides with ten-deep crowds, with a preponderance of women...
...Hooverizer Hughes's remark last week in Chicago, that "the Democrats, to take Smith's tariff plan, will have to eat more crow than the Democratic stomach can stand," the Smith retort was: ''What a delicious pot of crow the Governor [Hughes] is compelled to witness his party eating on the Federal Reserve Bank system.'' Then he announced that all Democratic members of and candidates for Congress had been telegraphed and asked if they would stand by the Smith tariff declaration. Four-fifths of these Democrats had replied in the affirmative, "the other 20% being away on campaign tours." Then...