Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party of the Common People, Catholicism and Repeal. Al Smith's defeat in 1928 was proof that these mixed assets were a liability. And even the success of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 was due more to a fortuitous combination of these heterogeneous elements against Herbert Hoover and three years of Depression than to any real fusion of the various things that pass for Democracy in behalf of the winning candidate...
...Booker T. Washington's office boy, became a Washington, D. C. lawyer. He married a Negro woman who operates a Government accounting machine. They put their boy through the University of Michigan. The Mitchells moved to Chicago in 1928, there working for the G. O. P. and Herbert Hoover's election. Arthur Mitchell had switched parties by 1932. Campaigning against Representative De Priest on the platform that the New Deal was a boon to blacks and whites alike, he declared: "I would work harder for my people than any other Congressman, but I would not keep thinking about...
...there was a great pother of excitement when Republican Oscar De Priest's wife in a blue chiffon dress, grey hat and coat and on Mrs. Herbert Hoover's invitation, went to the White House one afternoon to drink tea with white Congressmen's ladies (TIME, June 24, 1929). Mrs. Mitchell will expect a similar tea-date with Mrs. Roosevelt. "There is no prejudice against my people in the present Administration.'' the black Gentleman from Illinois told his constituents. "This is a new day under a New Deal...
...President Roosevelt should decide that no Democrat can control prices, if he should give that job to a Republican especially close to Herbert Hoover, then the New Deal would have sunk as low as Adolf Hitler felt obliged to stoop last week...
...bankers, Senator Reed personified to Roosevelt Democrats all the things the New Deal was against. Capitalizing to the limit on Roosevelt prestige and brazenly comparing the $678,000,000 poured into his State as relief and loans by the Roosevelt Administration to the $12,000,000 by the Hoover Administration, Democrat Guffey went about Pennsylvania lauding the President as "God's inspired servant." Even the belated and not altogether convincing support of Governor Pinchot for the G. 0. P. ticket could not save Senator Reed. As Senator-elect Guffey was loudly and truthfully proclaiming his success as a Roosevelt...