Word: shavers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democratic Testimony. The week previous, the Committee had taken Republican and Third Party testimony. To round out its survey, the Committee, last week, heard the testimony of Clem L. Shaver, Chairman, and James W. Gerard, Treasurer, of the Democratic National Committee. These gentlemen averred that their total budget added into the neighborhood of $750,000 of which $549,000 had been contributed by some 4,000 persons...
...Clem L. Shaver, alleged ineffectual Chairman of the Davis campaign, together with the Republican Chairman (William M. Butler), was soundly rebuked by The New York Times, chief Davis organ. Said the newspaper: "It is significant that protests against the political gush which the Chairmen of the National Committees have been so freely exuding are being heard within the ranks of their own parties . . . Republican complaint about the rosy optimism of Chairman Butler is reaching and disquieting Washington. The President is urged to mobilize that famous Advisory Committee which was to hold the too sanguine and too arbitrary Butler in check...
...movement. . . . "To secure for the farmer credits suitable for his needs. "This .is our platform." He boarded his train once more and went on, while the metaphorical announcer called: "All aboard for Denver, Cheyenne, Topeka, Bunceton, Des Moines and Chicago!" Meanwhile, in the East, the rather ineffectual Clem L. Shaver sputtered that he expected LaFollette to get about 70 electoral votes in the West. Some Democratic campaigners set the number even higher. They admit it cheerfully. "This," they say, "means that LaFollette is weakening Coolidge. LaFollette having the West, if the election is not to be thrown into the Electoral...
Candidate Davis, asked if he had any comment to make on Mrs. Shaver's remarks, smiled broadly: "None whatever...
...Clem L. Shaver, Democratic National Campaign Manager, and his wife are presumably on connubial good terms; but that does not require that he be interested in her political opinions. Mrs. Shaver wrote a letter to the West Virginia press in which she spoke of Gov. Charles W. Bryan, Democratic nominee for the Vice Presidency, as a "pacifist" and remarked that "he does the ticket no good" (TiME, Sept. 8). The Republican New York Herald-Tribune hounded Mr. Shaver for his opinion of his wife's opinions. He responded curtly...