Word: reject
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play golf where I won't have to wear a sweater," was the reason announced by President-Reject Smith for his southern vacation, which began last week. He emphasized the fact that the South contained for him something besides Democratic politics, by declining to visit even Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his gubernatorial heir, who was resting, reviewing, retrenching at Warm Springs, Ga. The Smith Special proceeded, not without cheers, to Biloxi, Miss. There the Messrs. Smith, Raskob, Kenny, Riordan, et al., left off their sweaters and played, without further public palaver, golf...
Before leaving Manhattan, the President-Reject had taken leave of the electorate one more last time. People had wondered what he would say-whether he would appeal for funds to pay for the effort he had led;* whether he would have a last fling at "influences" which may have beaten him; whether it would be a personal swan-song or a parting battle-tucket to the Democracy...
...wind and sleet. Yet the Albanians were out to meet him in cheering, bomb-bursting thousands. Mayor John Boyd Thacher insisted on taking his arm through the crush, just as on triumphal occasions when the Brown Derby used to return as Governor-re-elect. Now he was President-reject...
Empty Measure. If it is bitter to lose the Presidency, how much more bitter it must have been to lose one's right to run for the Presidency. His supposed ability to carry mighty New York had been the President-reject's right-to-run. Many a Democrat had regarded the Smith candidacy of 1928 as a test of what might be in 1932. Among more than 4,000,000 votes, the Hoover margin of 100,000 over Smith in New York was not numerically enormous. But psychologically it loomed as the terminus of the brief, embattled Smith...
Snobbery. Democrats insisted that, stronger than any distinction as to honesty or ability, the electorate made a social distinction between the nominees; that the President-reject was "whispered" about for his lack of polish, for his spitting on floors, rough voice, vulgar accent. Democrats were only infuriated when Republicans, admitting this charge, said...