Word: lead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah had been the biggest Republican gun up to the entry of Campaigner Hughes and he was second on the list in the effort to save Missouri. He arrived from Texas, where he had talked about Tammany and Prohibition, and made an automobile tour of the lead and zinc mining section near Joplin in the southwestern corner of the State. Prohibition and Prosperity were the subjects of his Joplin speech, but he also took occasion to answer critics who accuse him of abandoning his principles to support Nominee Hoover. Said...
...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...
...Lead Cheers From Cotton Truck...
Falling into line behind the Cotton Workers the Harvard contingent was fortunate enough to be able to use the truck of this group as a stand from which to lead cheers and to direct the movements of its members...
...only chance Smith has is to carry all the doubtful states, this he cannot do as these states are giving more and more indications of a definite Republican plurality. Kentucky, even, will vote for Hoover with a definite majority. I do not believe, however, that Smith's lead in New York City can be overcome by a Republican lead upstate...