Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heart warmed by a Presidential farewell, and perhaps stimulated by foreknowledge of a Presidential blessing he was to receive en route (see p. 7), Herbert Hoover set out from Washington to Palo Alto, to vote for himself and be voted for. At Cumberland, Md., he paused and spoke again about Prosperity. One aside in this speech revealed the political flair which he had seldom been suspected of having. Spying some of the train crew in the crowd he said: "I think I ought to tell them I am grateful to them. . . . I have come to think of this strip...
Chairman Raskob had some photostats made. He obtained affidavits from people in Mississippi, Kentucky, Kansas and Tennessee who described instances where Republican officials, State and national, had engaged in whipping up anti-Catholic animus. The most common offense seemed to be handing out The Fellowship Forum, nauseous, rabid Klanpaper (see p. 59). Two of the owners of this sheet, Mr. Raskob noted, were Republican State Chairman R. H. Angell of Virginia and William G. Conley, Republican nominee for Governor of West Virginia...
...other Smith Progressive Senator, John James Elaine of Wisconsin, added his voice to the confused excitement in Chicago (see p. 12). He accused the Republicans of "whispering their anthem of 'Rum, Rags and Romanism...
...hide away the full dinner pail. He worked it until he had it all worn out and when this campaign opened up he quietly went up into the attic and had a little piece of chamois cloth and was getting ready to polish it all up and see if he could not pass it around again...
Many a flat joke was made about the next Congress not being "Ruthless" and about this being the campaign of the four Ruths, since Baseballer George Herman ("Babe") Ruth was stumping for the Brown Derby (see p. 9). The three ladies were...