Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Hoover campaign is to be a businesslike affair, based on the Coolidge record, with no mudslinging at the Democrats countenanced or tolerated. Senator Moses said: "When we begin to campaign . . . we won't call him 'AP but we will refer to him as the governor of New York...
...Hotel. So far as the convention was concerned, Mr. Jones, who arranged it all, was the most important man in town. A Mr. Smith, of course, was the most important man, not in town. William C. Hogg, whom oldtime Houstonians might call their first citizen and whose father was governor of Texas (1891-95), published a letter upbraiding Mr. Jones for "a consistent and calculating career of mendacity which would belittle even Jesse James, who was romantic enough to ride a horse." Mr. Hogg also imputed "stalwart avarice" and "piratical trading" to Mr. Jones, but few took note. They just...
...Wilson was for Mr. Smith and so really was Mr. Jones. Governors, Senators and Bosses steamed into town and, following the withdrawal of Maryland's Ritchie, the opposition to Smith ebbed steadily. Georgia's George, Tennessee's Hull, and Mississippi's Harrison declined to be sheer "anti's." Arkansas' Robinson said his delegates were free. So did Ayres of Kansas. Young Governor Moody of Texas refused to lead the dry bloc. Indiana offered to shift to Smith after one ballot for Banker Evans Woollen. Ohio's Newton Diehl Baker, long a Smith endorser...
Committeeman Norman E. Mack of New York stirred things up by declaring that Governor Smith stood for State-determinism, against prohibition, for temperance. Governor Smith curtly confirmed this "news." When the Resolutions Committee began its work none could guess how the drink plank would be phrased or by whom. Senators Pittman of Nevada and King of Utah, Drys both, were for conciliation through vagueness. Boss Brennan of Illinois said: "No sensible Democrat ought to worry. . . . Only one person in 25,000 thinks and only one in 50,000 reads the party platform...
...film admitted their fault and agreed to make a correction. It was a film called Deliverance, a moral romance meant to advertise among Y. M. C. A. men the stirring statistics of Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist and Dry propagandist. The script had called for a picture of Governor Smith signing a bill. The producer had clipped a newsreel "shot" of Governor Smith signing a tax-reduction bill and then implied by subtitles that the bill shown was the repealer to New York's Prohibition enforcement...