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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Midlanders wondered about the people Nominee Smith had around him as he passed through the land on the private car "St. Nicholas" (called "Santa Claus" by the newsmen). Most of the people who accompany Hoover have national reputations. Most of the Smith "traveling cabinet" needed introduction...
...acting state chairman. Leaving Oklahoma City, she stepped to the observation car railing and explained: "Mrs. Smith is so modest that she doesn't like to make speeches. ... She hopes to see you all again when, we all hope, she will be the First Lady of the Land...
...Palm Beach lies Lake Okeechobee in the tangled Everglades. It is 45 miles long. The surrounding country is lower than the lake and is protected by dikes. There are hundreds of small farms, sugar cane fields, blackamoor shacks. During the hurricane Lake Okeechobee burst the dikes. The rich land became a morass; in certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout the whole region...
...Communism is not dead yet!" he warned impressively, "Mr. Ferguson, the Communist candidate at the recent Aberdeen by-election, polled 2,618 votes. Communism is being propagated insidiously throughout our land today...
...live, move and have our physical being as a result of chemical processes. Whether we travel on foot in chrome-tanned shoes and rayon stockings or roll to work on rubber wheels and concrete roads, we travel in comfort by chemical grace and goodwill. If we land in the hospital, the chemist has anticipated our coming. He is there before us with antiseptics, anesthetics and remedial agents for the relief of suffering and the restoration of health...