Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most valuable items in the collection are two large buttons for the McKinley inauguration in 1900 and for his first nomination in 1896. Among Sugar's more than 3,000 buttons are ones for William Jennings Bryan, Samuel Tilden, Rutherford B. Hayes, Wendell Wilkie, Alfred Landon, Alfred Smith, Herbert Hoover and Alton B. Parker...
...speculated that Egypt's Nasser might seize the Suez Canal in retaliation. But State did not rate the chances very high. Secretary Dulles was in Peru when Nasser shrieked his challenge (see FOREIGN NEWS). Dulles got on the radiotelephone to Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. Hoover conferred with President Eisenhower, and the President dispatched Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy to London to confer with the British and French on lines of counteraction...
EVER since the mournful 1928 presidential-election showing of New York's Al Smith (87 electoral votes v. 444 for Herbert Hoover), the Democratic Party has generally accepted as political gospel this proposition: a Roman Catholic is a fatal liability on a national ticket and is therefore not to be considered...
...first to deal with the matter of Al Smith. "The 'Al Smith myth,' " says the paper, "is one of the falsest myths in politics. The year 1928 was a Republican year, regardless of who was on either ticket. It was a year for 'drys' like Hoover, not 'wets' like Smith...
Secretary of State Herbert Hoover...