Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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. Hughes, Vice President Dawes, Nominee Curtis, Frank Orren Lowden, Senator Borah, etc., etc. Nominee Smith nailed the deceptive use of the Gompers quotation and kept his whole reply on that political level. Instead of elaborating a politico-economic theory, he simply said: "There is a very wide differ ence between public ownership and public...
...Hoover Scripps-Howard chain-papers, which had already disowned the Hoover position on water power, pointed editorially to Senator Norris and exclaimed: "There...
...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, under the Constitution of the United States, to engage in the power business, irrespective of flood control, navigation, irrigation or scientific research or national defense...
...Nominee Hoover's Boston speech, in which Nominee Smith's proposal of a non-partisan Tariff Commission was represented as a proposal to take Tariff control away from Congress, the Smith retort was: "What is the idea of all that? . . . I never suggested that the power of Congress be handed over to a commission, . . I ask that the Tariff Commission be rehabilitated and be strengthened, that the right type of people be appointed to it ... to lay before Congress and the people of the United States the underlying facts that sustain the reason for every change in a tariff schedule...
...Hoover knows just as well as I do that the power of making tariffs could not be transferred from Congress to a commission without an amendment to the Federal Constitution, and there was no reason for that statement at Boston, unless it was intended to mislead the people as to what my belief about the tariff...