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...honesty" between Hoover and Smith; to call the Democrats "a party of abandoned issues" (including the League of Nations, which Mr. Hughes himself abandoned), to jibe at the Democrats' declarations on the Tariff, to imply that the Smith farm program was "political quackery," to call the Prohibition issue a "sham battle." to hail Prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaigners | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...however, take issue with Hooverizer Hughes on the subject of platform etiquette. He conserved radio time by hushing the gallery orators and plunging straight into Prohibition. His text was Hooverizer Hughes' remark, a few days prior in Missouri, about the Prohibition issue being a "sham battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smith Speeches | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...William Joynson-Hicks, British Home Secretary: "Unless the nations of the world follow the example of Great Britain and show a real desire to curtail their armaments, the compact will be nothing but a hollow sham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Triumph of Kellogg | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...mockery and a sham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Keynotes | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...quite sure that the speed is wrong. Slow it down until you feel you are listening to an amiable old gentleman of 71 with a rather pleasant Irish voice, then that is me. All other people whom you hear at other speeds are impostors, sham Shaws, phantoms who never existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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