Word: livingstones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foremost campaigner for the President was short, ruddy, big-nosed Ogden Livingston Mills. As Secretary of the Treasury he had lived, slept and slaved with the Hoover reconstruction program since its inception last year. Its details he knew by rote. On the stump he became its greatest expounder and expositor...
...hold scholarships. From 1,500 to 2,500 foreign students were affected, chiefly in New York and California. Last week arose a great hue & cry, led by Dr. John Henry MacCracken, associate director of the American Council on Education, U. S. Commissioner of Education William John Cooper, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University, President James Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan, President Cloyd Heck Marvin of George Washington (Washington, D. C.) and President Nicholas Murray Butler of polyglot Columbia, who cried, "Reactionary and stupid...
...South Carolina the issue was: "Shall Cole Blease stay home?" The renomination of Ellison DuRant ("Ipso Facto") Smith, Senator for 24 years, was an emphatic YES. Beaten twice straight for the Senate, blatant and erratic Coleman Livingston Blease was considered to have reached the end of his political career...
Both parties stumped the State as they never had in recent years. The Republicans imported Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. The Democrats called in James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney and Massachusetts' Governor Joseph Buell Ely and Senator David Ignatius Walsh. Interested but helpless observers were 350 "paupers" of Lewiston, Me., disfranchised under an old law which denies the right to vote to those who accept State or municipal charity. These gave Senator Walsh a chance to say that the Republicans, "having brought misfortune to many people ... are now penalizing them for this mis fortune." The 350 Lewiston "paupers...
...failed to win elections for Republican nominees. Carefully following in his father's oversized footsteps, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. served two years at Albany before going to Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.? In 1924 when he ran for Governor, Alfred Emanuel Smith defeated him unmercifully. Ogden Livingston Mills spent two years in the State Senate, six in the House of Representatives, but Smith trounced him too, in 1926. Albert Ottinger was a State Senator before President Harding put him in his sub-Cabinet as Assistant Attorney General. He was beaten in 1928 for the Governorship by Franklin Roosevelt...