Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work, shrewd businessmen and active Democrats charged gross negligence. Republicans varied in their opinions and said he had been either unfortunate or thickheaded. Most embarrassing to Dr. Work was the comment of the strongly pro-Hoover New York Telegram, leader of the 26 Scripps-Howard chain-papers. Said the Telegram: "Stupidity is the most charitable interpretation. . . . Dr. Hubert Work is a liability, not an asset, to Herbert Hoover. . . . It has long been our opinion that Work is a lightweight. . . . Herbert Hoover would immeasurably strengthen his position with millions of American voters if he would drop that particular pilot...
...John H. Grill, longtime Democrat, Minnesota farm leader. Reason: "Mr. Hoover . . . is the most logical man we have ever had for president...
...Nominee went to Elizabethton largely under the auspices of onetime (1921-23) Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claudius Hart Huston and U. S. Representative Brazilla Carroll Reece. The leader of a neighboring and equally Republican district in Tennessee is Representative J. Will Taylor. The Messrs. Huston and Reece have sharp intraparty differences with Mr. Taylor. But it was planned, for harmony's sake, to let Mr. Taylor be as big a lion as anyone in receiving Nominee Hoover. It was planned that, at the luncheon of the day, Mr. Reece should rise to welcome the Nominee, and that Mr. Taylor...
...Leader: "For the Palace that lies desolate...
...read in today's issue that Cheer Leader Reid attacks the support of the student body of the Harvard team as far as cheering goes...