Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Curtis marched down the street in Topeka, Kan. with his unpublicized sister, Mrs. Jerome Calvin. He was offered an automobile ride but declined it. To the polling place he marched and waited his turn to vote for himself and Herbert Hoover. That night, listening to returns before entraining for Washington, he learned that 50,000 too few Kansans had done likewise for him to save even Kansas' 9 electoral votes for his party. Said he: "This is the first popular election I have ever lost...
...over their present membership. This startling increase was secured mostly at the expense of Republican Old Guardsmen who suffered defeat not only because they had been "ins" for many a long year but also because they were identified in the voters' mind as conservative supporters of the unpopular Hoover regime. Dean of the Senate in point of service (29 years) and chairman of its powerful Finance Committee is long, lanky, lugubrious Reed Smoot whom Utah voters summarily retired for Democrat Elbert D. Thomas professor of political sciences at the State University. The defeat of 70-year-old Senator Smoot...
Indiana's James Eli Watson, long-legged, large-stomached, small-eyed leader of the present Republican Senate majority of one, was defeated by Democrat Frederick Van Nuys, Indianapolis attorney. President Hoover, campaigning in the State, had made a warm personal appeal for Senator Watson's reelection. Watson entered the Senate in 1917, succeeded Charles Curtis as G. 0. P. leader in 1929. Long a Dry, he ran as a Resubmissionist. Senator-elect Van Nuys, a longtime Democratic worker, favors Repeal and beer. There was a real partisan revenge in the defeat of New Hampshire's Senator since...
...Governor George White, onetime gold-rusher in the Klondike, managed to resist the popular tide against the "ins" and hold his office against Republican David Sinton Ingalls, young and wealthy, the Navy's only War ace. At the President's request, Governor-reject Ingalls had left the Hoover sub-Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to try and carry Ohio for Hoover. Rhode Island. Impressed with his strenuous campaign as the "All-Round Man" who, stripped to the waist, lugged stones (TIME, Nov. 7), voters preferred Democrat Theodore Francis Green as Governor to Republican Norman...
...solemnly to be photographed in their sailor pants and reefers. They romped and spun tops while customs officials skimmed through their 22 valises in each of which bathrobe, towel, comb and handkerchiefs were packed exactly alike. Then, after sight-seeing Manhattan, the boys set out for Washington where Mrs. Hoover and many another notable heard them sing with expert unity and phrasing, saw them enact neatly and unaffectedly Bastien & Bastienne, a fragile little opera which another Austrian boy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, wrote when...