Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South": "Do not think me intrusive in speaking to you, but recall how my father, Horace Greeley, came down after the Civil War, to bail your President, Jeff Davis, and returned to face in consequence almost financial ruin. May I send you a word of greeting to say how glad I am that so many of you are breaking through party lines to vote for a great American, Herbert Hoover. "Herbert Hoover has grown up in the clean country, an orphan wrestling with poverty for a living and an education. After gaining these with his great natural powers...
...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: "You may say that means Muscle Shoals...
...said flatly that he favored Federal operation. The World laughed at the Scripps-Howard chain-papers and called the Hoover postscripts "shadow-boxing." Vexed but honest, the chain-papers admitted that the Hoover candor had not been perfect. They said: "It is difficult to understand why Hoover didn't say he was for government ownership and government operation of Muscle Shoals, or either or neither, instead of saying something else, then pointing to it and saying further, 'that means Muscle Shoals'; then, two days later, interpreting what he meant by "that...
Moving southwards, visiting at Richmond, Va., where Governor Byrd shook his hand heartily and Mrs. Byrd put a rose in his buttonhole, the Nominee planned what he would say about the tariff. In his speech of acceptance, he had said: "The Democratic Party does not, and under my leadership will not, advocate any sudden or drastic revolution in our economic system which would cause business upheaval or economic distress. This principle was recognized as far back as the passage of the Underwood Tariff bill...
...Honor, Country," holds for us. It stays with one long after his Cadet days are over. It is that spirit that we of the Corps are treading today "where they of the Corps have trod." It is somewhat different from that spirit of brotherhood and fellowship between men who say, "I am a Harvard man." It is not only distinctly military: it is more than that. It is the "spirit of old West Point." It is this spirit that makes us endure many a guard tour, many a day of studying, many of night of longing for "Furio," many...