Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican party has given a notable instance of platform promises carried out. Under the leadership of President Coolidge, it has proved itself a party of constructive ability. In Mr. Hoover, it offers to the country an able and experienced leader, who will carry on the work of the present Ad- ministration. After a long and successful business career, he has held many public and official positions of the greatest responsibility. He has proved himself a great organizer, a far-seeing and resourceful executive, and has discharged every duty in a way to merit the highest praise and admiration. Based...
...tariff theme lent itself also to the one embarrassing feature of the New England visit?the depression, in the textile industry. Nominee Hoover said he thought textiles had "turned the corner." He also, surprising no one, said: "Any change in the present policy of protection would without question result in a flood of foreign textile products which would mean no less than ruin to New England industry, both manufacturers and workmen...
...film at Albany. With Jefferson, the Great Dane, nearby, he was not afraid. Nor was it "baloney" to him. He sang earnestly, correctly, to the end. George J. Anderson, president of the Consolidated Coal Co. (Rockefeller, "largest U. S. producers of soft coal,") declared for Smith and said: "The present administration has not disguised its hostility to West Virginia's basic interest." He mentioned that West Virginia voted for Coolidge in 1924 instead of its native John William Davis. "The State has received not bread, but a stone." The National Council of the Steuben Society of America recommended Nominee...
...Tariff Commission is at present composed of six members, of which not more than three may be of the same political party. They receive $9,000 each per annum. The present, and usual, constituency is three Republicans, three Democrats and it is usually deadlocked on party lines when reports are required...
Temperamentally, too, the father is more present in his younger son. Brother Phil is the artist, Brother Bob the scientist, of politico-social activity. Both are intense, but in Brother Phil the intensity is more apparent. He is less facile at repartee, which Young Bob turns off almost automatically. When they were children, their oldest sister, Fola LaFollette, found small Robert sitting gloomily on the porch. She asked what the trouble was. He explained that Philip and the other sister, Mary, had found a little dead bird and were having a funeral for it. He had been crying because "they...