Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Herbert Hoover buying pitcher after pitcher of foaming ale for all who crowded into his hotel room, after his speech...
...When Mr. Hoover stood on the Convention platform to make his farewell address, the demonstration was genuine and joyous. He beamed and waved. After 15 minutes of yelling, shrieking, hooting, he was allowed to begin. With left hand in pocket and chubby right fist bouncing on the rostrum in time with his denunciation, he culminated his six-month attack on the New Deal with a masterly peroration. Excerpts...
John Edgar Hoover L.L.D...
...paired with Oh! Susanna as a major overtone of 1936 only by accident. The rhythm of Senator Steiwer's keynote phrase, "Three long years!" automatically evoked the old nursery jingle. Prompt to answer the Republican parody were Democratic versions recalling the twelve long years of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. But Oh! Susanna was not revived by accident. Governor Landon's efficient handlers had searched carefully for a tune to set him to, a tune that could surely be plugged into another Banana Song. After discarding a "We Want Landon" chant and the somewhat tedious Kansas University song...
Campaign songs lapsed for a time thereafter. Harding had no outstanding song. Coolidge boosters worked on "It's Coolidge and Dawes for the Nation's Cause. . . ." But the tune never caught on. Seldom were two campaign songs more evenly matched in popularity than the Smith-Hoover clash of Sidewalks and California. This year, Oh! Susanna will be pitted against the old F. D. Roosevelt reliable, Happy Days Are Here Again...