Word: nomineees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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cry of a Hamiltonian sort of person who viewed the People with alarm? Was it by any chance purely a vote-hunting cry? In any case, was it a wise cry, politically? The nub of the Hoover speech was this: during the War, the U. S. Govern ment was centralized...
(5 of 6) of water power. Nominee Smith was not slow to pick up the "Socialist" challenge. Speaking in Boston, he "called the roll" of eminent Republicans past and present whom, he said, would have to be classed as "Social ists" if he was one - the late Theodore Roosevelt, Mr...
The pro-Hoover New York Journal (Hearst) defended Nominee Smith from the "Socialist" charge. Hearst Cartoonist T. E. Powers drew a cartoon called "Wall Street Socialists." An elephant with whiskers and a silk hat scowled at a brown-derbied donkey and said: "You're a Socialist!" The donkey retorted...
Spokesman Hughes spoke in Buffalo and a subtler piece of political pleading has seldom been heard. The Hughes presence, dignity, prestige and good form are almost unique in U. S. public life. Few other fig- ures could have administered so impressively the prefatory rebukes to the Brown Derby which Spokesman...
Mr. Hughes sought to pinion Nominee Smith on Water Power by inquiring why "Government operation" had been omitted from the Boston speech. That was the teat, he said. "Government operation" would mean "State socialism." "Let Governor Smith clarify his position. . . . Does Governor Smith contend that the Government has the right...