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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...
...Washington Post, circulation 80,000,* published by Edward B. McLean, fast friend of the late President Harding. Reasons: "After careful and impartial study ... the protective tariff . . . Prosperity...
...Senators are to be elected. Three are to replace vacancies : to succeed the late Willis of Ohio, Gooding of Idaho. Jones of New Mexico. None of these States figures importantly in the presidential election. In eight other States, the Senatorial results are not in doubt - Pennsylvania, Maine, Vermont, California (Republicans) ; Florida, Texas, Mississippi. Virginia (Democrats). In 12 of 26 other States, the Senatorial campaigns are un likely to affect presidential results - Ari zona. Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho. Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico (2), Ohio (2). Utah, Washington, West Virginia. Wyoming...
...represent his opponent as the apostle of an entire political philosophy foreign to the U. S. In doing so he had been indirect, impersonal, but purposeful. For example, he had cited government operation of railroads, a question not under debate. And he had quoted from the late great Laborite Samuel Gompers to improve his general argument, without explaining that the Gompers quotation had reference to Government operation of railroads and that alone. These things about the "Socialism" speech made it sound like just another political speech, and bad politics at that, because Nominee Smith was left with an obvious retort...
...water power. Nominee Smith was not slow to pick up the "Socialist" challenge. Speaking in Boston, he "called the roll" of eminent Republicans past and present whom, he said, would have to be classed as "Social ists" if he was one - the late Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Hughes, Vice President Dawes, Nominee Curtis, Frank Orren Lowden, Senator Borah, etc., etc. Nominee Smith nailed the deceptive use of the Gompers quotation and kept his whole reply on that political level. Instead of elaborating a politico-economic theory, he simply said: "There is a very wide differ ence between public ownership and public...