Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Hoover made some history. He was the first G. O. P. nominee for President ever seen in Tennessee. He stood on a platform in a mountain meadow at Elizabethton and, in the fourth main speech of his campaign proper, addressed the whole South. He implied that he was neither an orator nor a humorist nor particularly a politician. He spoke as a Westerner, as a member of an administration whose record he thought was good, as a champion of the Home, as one who wants to "abolish poverty...
Towards the end came the Hoover speech about Main Street, with special reference to that famed thoroughfare's co-operation during the Mississippi flood. Said the Nominee: "I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life, the stature and character of our people. More particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national charracter...
...Roosevelt will be introduced by his son James Roosevelt '30 now an undergraduate. The only two speeches will be the main speech by Mr. Roosevelt and the introduction...
...eight minutes of four the proctorial staff concluded copying the examination into bluebooks, and in a few seconds the lost battalion was at work. At five minutes of four the writers on the main floor began to make departures of varying conspicuousness, continuing to do so until twenty minutes after four...
Facts, melted down, consisted of this information: the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America supposedly aided by members of the three main religious groups, is collaborating with the National Broadcasting Company to hold every Sunday afternoon a 90-minute religious program on a hookup of 40 or more stations...