Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local instance" not far from where the Nominee was speaking was the Federal power-and-nitrate project at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River. Whether the Government shall sell Muscle Shoals, or lease it to privateers, or keep and operate it itself, has been a hot question in the South for ten years. It is still such a hot question that Editor Edward John Meeman of the Knoxville News-Sentinel thought Nominee Hoover's government-in-business passage did not tell the South enough. He asked the Nominee point-blank what it meant. Then came the first Hoover postscript...
...News-Sentinel is one of the 26 Scripps-Howard chain-papers. All the young Scripps-Howard editors are supporting Nominee Hoover this year.? All the young Scripps-Howard editors are also supporting the government-ownership-and-operation side of the Water Power question. Editor Meeman of the News-Sentinel was apparently satisfied that Nominee Hoover's first postscript implied govern ment ownership and operation for Muscle Shoals...
...other newsmen were not so satisfied and at a press conference back in Washington, Nominee Hoover found it necessary to make his second postscript. This time he said: "There is no question of government ownership about Muscle Shoals, as the government already owns both the power and the nitrate plants. The major purposes which were advanced for its construction were navigation, scientific research and national defense. The Republican Administration has recommended that it be dedicated to agriculture for research purposes and development of fertilizers in addition to its national defense reserve. After these purposes are satisfied, there...
...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...
Labor unions had agitated the question. In the Federal Court at Buffalo, Mary Cook and Antonio Danelon lost their cases. In the Circuit Court of Appeals they won, with many a fine reference to the Jay Treaty of 1794 and the historic freedom of U. S.-Canadian comings & goings. The Supreme Court nodded its approval...