Word: heflinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Cannon Jr., hero of the anti-Smith crusade in Virginia, asked for the resignation of National Chairman Raskob. So did-Georgia's W. D. ("Praying Willie") Upshaw. So did the Georgian (Atlanta), the Observer (Charlotte, N. C.), the Winston-Salem Journal, the Mobile Register, Senators Simmons and Heflin, Governor Moody of Texas. Roman Catholicism, anti-Prohibition and Tammany were, of course, in all Southerners' minds. Governor Moody was more polite than most when he centred his fire on Mr. Raskob, whom he called "a cynical commercialist with an alcohol complex...
Superintendent McBride, Mrs. Willebrandt, Billy Sunday, Bishop Cannon, The Fellowship Forum, "Wizard" Evans, Senator Heflin, William Allen White, Mrs. Boole...
...Senator Heflin's flat anti-Smith declaration was saved up until last week at Dothan, Ala., a town with a newspaper (the Eagle) which has said: "Oh Heflin . . . Oh Hell!" Cried the Senator, "I will vote against Al Smith, so help me God!" and exhausted most of his time with his well-known Anti-Catholic tirade...
Regularly during the campaign, The Fellowship Forum devoted eight out of its ten pages to violent, blatant and inaccurate attacks on Al Smith, the Pope and rum -by story, headline, editorial, cartoon and readers' forum. The doings and speeches of Mrs. Willebrandt, Rev. John Roach Straton, Senator Heflin and many a minor bigot were faithfully reported. The technique in handling campaign trends was to ballyhoo a Hoover landslide: for example, "Smith to be Most Badly Defeated Candidate Ever Running for Presidency." Then there was standard stuff: "Drunk Negro Boosting Smith," "Kissing Pope's Ring Insult to Flag," "Tirades...
...pages long, therefore comes closer to be Jonathan's account of David than Boswell's account of Johnson. It is campaign literature in the sense that it is wholly favorable to the Democratic candidate, but it is not campaign literature in the sense that the writings of Willebrandt or Heflin or the vaporings of Dr. Stratton are. Mr. Roosevelt says nothing, or hardly anything of the Republicans. In straightforward language, he merely recounts the record of Al Smith, with some slight interpretation...