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...Leaguer, head of the World League against Alcoholism; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago. An implacable crusader, the bishop waged a lifetime campaign against "Rome and rum." For a decade, Southern politicians trembled at his disapproval. His 1928 denunciations of Al Smith helped to turn the Solid South toward Herbert Hoover. When his own church accused him of dabbling in Wall Street bucket shops, he wept publicly and pleaded for Christian forgiveness. The church forgave him but his fame began to fade. His first wife, mother of his nine children, died in 1928. In 1930, in London, after a trip through...
George Norris ignored all the rules. He courted political suicide. Elected on the Republican ticket, he conscientiously nagged at Republican Presidents Taft, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover. His constituents were rural, dry Republicans, but in 1928 he campaigned for New York's wet, Catholic, Democrat Al Smith. The only campaign promise he made was: "I have voted against every measure and every motion I believed wrong. ... If reelected, I promise you that I will carry on with that same policy...
...counselor to the nation"; after suffering heart and kidney complications; in Hoboken, N.J. Bug-eyed, jumpy Meyer stargazed in purple robes edged with gold, got anadvance scoop on President McKinley's assassination, called President Harding's death one year too soon, picked Al Smith and Dempsey over Hoover and Tunney, predicted that by 1942 the U.S. would have a female President and a civil war between Capital and Labor...
...about a U.S. foreign policy based on "shadowy plans for a world order and for enforcing the four freedoms throughout the world." With half-concealed asperity they dismiss the notion that the New Deal represented a fundamental attack on poverty. They make a partial defense of Whipping Boy Herbert Hoover. Write the Beards: "President Hoover accepted no defeatist philosophy while this terrible depression harrowed the nation. . . . But Democratic tactics in the House of Representatives were principally confined to obstructing . . . such undertakings as he ventured to sponsor...
Equally clear was the other half of campaign strategy-the kind of aggression to be used against the Republicans. In speech after speech the Democrats dragged out Herbert Hoover as the man they prefer to campaign against. The convention relished the steady pounding at the 1928-32 U.S. President. He was one issue all Democrats could agree...