Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Bar Harbor, Me., Mr. Wickersham had explained: "I have no stenographer with me but I feel that your letter calls for the most helpful reply I can give and I hope that what I have written may suggest something of value in preparation of your address." Gov. Roosevelt said he felt no restriction had been imposed against the letter's publication. In Washington Chairman Wickersham refused to see newsmen, to answer their questions of whether or not he intended his letter for publication...
West Virginia's Conley said: "We don't need modification...
...nothing tradition and have resolutions adopted calling for more law enforcement, more support of President Hoover. South Carolina's Gov. John Gardiner Richards offered such a resolution. So did Virginia's Governor Byrd and North Carolina's Governor Gardner. What the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina in private was not recorded but their public attitudes emphatically tended toward lengthening the historic interval between libations...
...spread a story that President Hoover, favoring tariff flexibility, had secretly asked the Tariff Commission to supply him with the names of Democratic Senators who had appealed to it for higher tariff rates under the law's flexible, clause for commodities of, local interest to them. It was said that President Hoover was going to use this information to combat the Democratic attack upon tariff flexibility, to show that many a Democrat had covertly sought to use this very machinery to get higher rates for special commodities. Mississippi's Senator Harrison shouted that neither he nor any other...
Proud was he of that "snapper" on the end of his acceptance speech. He said afterward: "I suppose I've gone Cal one better with that 'Who could say no?' I'll pay for that. Some wag will follow me to my grave...