Word: hecklers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through Indiana and Illinois, into Iowa, rolled the Curtis campaign train. Swart and smiling, Nominee Curtis made 14 speeches in one day. He reiterated the virtues of protective tariff, of the Republican record on farm relief. At Spencer, Iowa, a heckler cried: "How did you vote on the McNary-Haugen bill...
...outstanding international reputation as an engineer." One is constantly hearing that about Herbert Hoover. But what did he do? I ask from goodnatured ignorance, not a heckler's corner. Where is his Panama Canal, his Brooklyn Bridge, his Moffat tunnel...
...pining Albert Bacon Fall and New Mexico's brusque, new, young figure, Senator Bronson Murray Cutting. His ire at Senator Cutting was aroused by the latter's voting to seat Senator-suspect Smith of Illinois. In the midst of a tirade, he was cut short by a heckler, Editor E. Dana Johnson of Senator Cutting's Santa Fé New Mexican (daily). Cried Editor Johnson: "Why didn't you tell him to his face...
...night of Candidate Coolidge's speech and the air was to be "cleared" earlier than usual. But Mr. Davis, speaking from the very rostrum from which Candidate Coolidge was nominated in June, found time to denounce the tariff and the Republican record and to squelch a heckler who bawled out "What is your stand on the Ku Klux Klan...
...answer sent the heckler staggering back up the aisle...