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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Walsh began telling the story of the Salt Creek lease and its renewal. On Oct. 16, the World continued the story. That afternoon. Attorney General Sargent signed and issued an opinion holding the Salt Creek lease void in the first instance and its renewal void as a result...
...called the Prohibition issue "a sentimental referendum." He said Democratic tariff proposals could only result in "some oblique movement . . . and destroy prosperity." He was talking to and about "the average vote.'' "The average voter senses this . . . and it will be the average voter who determines the result of the election...
...figures predicting what percentage of the Coolidge vote the Davis vote would be, put the Davis vote from 10% to 48% too low. Had the 1924 election not been a Coolidge landslide, contended Critic Franklin, these gross errors in popular vote would have been reflected in the electoral result...
...Nominee Smith arrived. The crowd was not greatly excited by the Smith speech when it proved to be a detailed attack on "Coolidge economy." All those present got the main point: that any great reduction in the cost of running the Government after 1921 was more likely the natural result of the return of the country to a peacetime basis than the phenomenal result of "rigorous" economy. But scores of auditors were sidling through the exits before the Nominee finished adducing details to prove his point. This was, perhaps, just as well for the Nominee, because many of his details...
...Chinese Puzzle." A typically political result of the Smith-Mellon skirmish was the appearance of the great Chinese Puzzle Issue in the campaign. At Sedalia, Nominee Smith said the Government's fiscal reports were ''about as near a Chinese puzzle as anything I ever saw in my life.'' Mr. Mellon retorted that this was "perhaps the most accurate statement in Governor Smith's entire speech." In Chicago, Governor Smith retorted: "If it is a Chinese puzzle to me with all my experience in diving into governmental figures running over a quarter of a century...