Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of War Davis made a speech in Omaha calling Nominee Smith ignorant on waterways...
Fred Penn, Omaha fisticuffer, gave one day last week half a pint of his own blood to save his mother's life in a transfusion operation. That same night, Fred Penn stepped into a prize ring, knocked down Fisticuffer Clarence Berger four times, won the bout...
...parallel vagueness about the Equalization Fee, which he avoided naming by name in his farm relief speech at Omaha. Finally, resorting to Hearstlike capital letters, they said: "Throughout this campaign the Scripps-Howard newspapers have believed WITH Hoover some of the time. We have believed IN him all of the time. . . . What the World's candidate says as to power ? or any other subject ? is right per se and must be accepted by the World as holy writ...
Your correspondent, L. F. Southwick of Connecticut, admits he is prejudiced against Governor Smith because the stubborn stamp of his upbringing on "the sidewalks of New York" makes him say "poisonal," "detoimined." And in his Omaha speech I heard plainly on the radio, "foist," "raddio." A man's a man for a' that...
There was, to begin with, hollow-cheeked, insurgent Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, where the trip started. He it is who is supposed to guard the Progressive mantle of the late, great LaFollette. The Omaha speech on farm relief received a nod of Norris approval. Of the Denver waterpower speech, Senator Norris said: "... Great! . . . We're up against the greatest monopoly, the greatest attempt at control of great resources, ever undertaken since the days of Jesus Christ!" The Omaha World-Herald, daily newspaper of the Brown Derby's advisor, onetime Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska...