Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Additions to Hooverism were: Mrs. Samuel Gompers, widow of the late great President of the American Federation of Labor. Reason: "The right man for such a high office...
...restless Northwest, the chances of a Progressive-Democratic sweep were lessened when Senators Frazier of North Dakota and Howell of Nebraska, both very vaguely Republican, decided to campaign as Hooverites despite the opposite action of their Progressive and Farmer-Labor comrades in Minnesota and Wisconsin...
...Youngest Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, to whom Senator Norris is a political foster-father. Senator LaFollette flayed Nominee Hoover and said : "Governor Smith has made public declarations and definite commitments which are in substantial accord with the progressive view on water power, farm relief, the in junction in labor disputes, corruption in the public service and abuse of the presi dential power in Nicaragua." But he did not actually say he would vote Democratic...
...curse of this country.' said a scandalized citizen? to me the other day, is its politicians. They are cynics, fakers, dope-merchants. ... If they don't lie, at least they prevaricate. . . . There's nothing to choose between them. Tory, Labor, Liberal. . . . Lead out all the politicians and shoot them, and the country and the Empire might have a chance...
...education, in a comprehensive grappling with grade-crossing evils, in the protection of the power resources of the state from selfish exploitation. The so-called economic questions of the future are only in part economic. Largely they involve a redistribution of responsibility and power; a more effective share by labor and agriculture in the nation's councils. The emphasis of Mr. Hoover's whole thought is the assumption that increasing industrial efficiency and the mass production of things automatically make for well-being and promote the spiritual quality of life. If Mr. Hoover realizes the moral Issues which "prosperity" intensifies...