Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press he said: "Well, it has been a long, hard job. . . . I feel satisfied with the campaign I have made...
Prejudice is a slippery thing and politics a more slippery. Every one knew that degenerate anti-Smith appeals were being made and that they greatly helped Hooverism. But Democratic Chairman Raskob was hard put to it to expose any Republican officials actually abetting them...
...thought) Hoover hour to pass. Then he spoke his final words to "my radio audience." It was perhaps the best speech of his whole campaign; a review of his own executive record, a call to civic duty, and thanks to all who had helped him in his "long, hard job." His final attack was: "The American people will never stand for a dictator any more than they are today satisfied with a policy of silence." His final appeal was: "At no time . . . did I ever trade a promise for a vote...
...Administrator for administrator, he is at least the equal of Mr. Hoover, and his extraordinary administrative abilities are as much controlled by a human sense of his fellow beings as Mr. Hoover's are by a hard 'efficiency' which works out to strengthen the position of just those economic interests that most need weakening instead of strengthening. I can hardly think of any insincerity greater, whether it is calculated or unconscious, than is involved in the attempt to 'sell' Mr. Hoover to the women of the country as a great humanitarian. That...
...devoted to the Red and Blue demonstration. The secondary was particularly alert and quick to sense the hidden ball and fake plays for which the Pennsylvania attack is famed. The line men too were rarely drawn out of position a fact which shows that the experience gained in two hard contests this fall has not gone for naught. Both team A and team B took part in this session and the seconds were only slightly less effective than the regulars...