Word: mooser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like that? Does the country want someone who doesn't know his own mind, who subordinates his conscience to party regularity, who is a well-disciplined stooge? Is the U.S. crying for another "Cautious Cal," another Harding? Said the Star: "Mr. Willkie could be a Bull Mooser, with one of the largest horn spreads of any moose on the loose. . . . He can't be Cal Coolidge...
Chairman's Progress. Harrison Spangler has been a stanch Republican wheel horse* all his adult life. Only once did he slip his halter-when he became a Bull Mooser in 1912. He worked up through precinct, county and district jobs to become National Committeeman in 1931. In 1936 he bossed Alf Landon's Chicago headquarters. In 1940 he backed Senator Taft's Presidential aspirations...