Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questionnaire, Lawyer Clarence Darrow said: "I don't think Hoover is any drier than I am. I ought to know. I have had a drink with him" (TIME, March 5). Last week, questions were submitted asking Nominee Hoover to confirm or deny the Darrow statement and also to record: 1) whether Mr. Hoover has taken a drink since Prohibition; 2) whether Mr. Hoover would take a drink now if assured the liquor was legally possessed. Nominee Hoover's secretary, chubby George Akerson, refused to transmit the questions to his chief. Vexed, he cried: "A lot of foolish nonsense...
...blind, facetious, onetime-Senator from Oklahoma who seconded Reed at Houston, frankly switched to Smith. Even bitter little Senator Simmons of North Carolina turned the other cheek, last week. It was a silent gesture. He did not promise to work actively for Smith. But he pointed to his Democratic record, held his peace...
...great deal of public and very caustic criticism of Tammany, and I asked myself the question: How can anything live in this country 139 years that is not all right? . . . Worthy Grand Sachem, I could speak on this platform for an hour and a half on the record and history of the Tammany Society as dedicated to the principles set forth in the Constitution of this Government. ... I will conclude with a congratulation and thanks to the society of which I am proud to be a member and an officer...
Will Smith win? "I unhesitatingly go on record as declaring that he will. Nor do I, in the language of Secretary Work, Hoover's manager, even qualify 'unless the party makes some mistakes.' . . . Smith will win even against the opposition of such brainy and attractive women as Mrs. Clem Shaver...
...useful manual, "Gentlemen, Be Seated!" is moreover good reading, not only for its "business," but for its record of minstrelsy since 14th century troubadours. Though the emphasis is of course upon the scions of the American burnt-cork circle, they have not been accorded the full responsibility they have undoubtedly had for weaning an 18th century public away from stage bombast to the extremely humanist drama of today...