Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walsh's assistance, it was going to expose "another oil scandal." On Oct. 15. the World and Senator Walsh began telling the story of the Salt Creek lease and its renewal. On Oct. 16, the World continued the story. That afternoon. Attorney General Sargent signed and issued an opinion holding the Salt Creek lease void in the first instance and its renewal void as a result...
This was not a coincidence, President Coolidge, seeing what the World and Senator Walsh were doing had demanded from his Attorney General immediate delivery of the opinion he had requested 224 days before. If it was obvious that the World and Senator Walsh had chosen a politically important moment to force the issue, it seemed equally obvious that Attorney General Sargent had meant to delay his unfortunate news until after Election...
...Work, shrewd businessmen and active Democrats charged gross negligence. Republicans varied in their opinions and said he had been either unfortunate or thickheaded. Most embarrassing to Dr. Work was the comment of the strongly pro-Hoover New York Telegram, leader of the 26 Scripps-Howard chain-papers. Said the Telegram: "Stupidity is the most charitable interpretation. . . . Dr. Hubert Work is a liability, not an asset, to Herbert Hoover. . . . It has long been our opinion that Work is a lightweight. . . . Herbert Hoover would immeasurably strengthen his position with millions of American voters if he would drop that particular pilot...
...there are "villains," there is likely to be a "goat." Hard though the thing was on Dr. Work, danger as well as pain threatened the man to whom Dr. Work pointed as the author of his error-Solicitor Ernest Odell Patterson of the Interior Department, the one lawyer whose opinion Dr. Work sought in renewing Sinclair's lease. Dr. Work is, or was, a bland, trusting, optimistic soul, full of cheery conversation and good spirits. Solicitor Patterson was his own choice. He had him appointed in 1926 by President Coolidge-a typical smalltown lawyer-politician from the Midwest, born...
...stack of straw votes accumulated at a cost of perhaps $1,000,000 by the Literary Digest (weekly opinion collector) is pointed to as one of the most momentous signs of the campaign. Last week, in its fifth installment, it showed Hoover ahead in 44 of the 48 states. The totals were: Hoover, 1,593,436; Smith 910,234. The electoral votes thus far forecast were: Hoover, 488, Smith...