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...Washington headquarters. For three years Democrat Shouse directed an effective drumfire of criticism upon the Republican administration. He, more than any oilier individual, was responsible for the fact that the House went Democratic after the 1930 election. G. O. Partisans blamed him for what they called the ''Smear Hoover" campaign. A Raskobite, he was eclipsed by the rise of the Roosevelt candidacy, denied the permanent chairmanship of the Chicago convention (TIME, July 4 & n). Politically jobless under the Democratic regime of Chairman Farley, he was really put into his 'new berth last week by Mr. Raskob, heaviest...
First Day, Ominous calm marked the first day's session at the Stadium. Beneath the Republicans' bunting, flags and Washington pictures, the gallery audience was only slightly larger than that which attended the G. 0. P. meeting. National Chairman Raskob, often accused by Republicans of trying to "smear Hoover," got a titter when he said he had looked up "smear" in the dictionary and found it meant "to anoint a dead body with sacred oil before burial." Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army prayed. Mayor Cermak rumbled a speech of welcome which soon descended to a partisan harangue. Then...
Flaying Democrats for trying to "smear Hoover," Senator Dickinson pointed with pride...
...from complete disintegration because he has "size." As for Barry, Kelley, Green, and Howard, Mr. Nathan disposes of them as a "dramatic barbershop quartette." In Vincent Lawrence, on the other hand, he finds the most gifted of present day comic-dramatists. From the rest," . . . we get the current liberal smear of pseudo-profound poppycock dealing with burnt-cork Spinozas, flapper Margaret Sangers, Strindbergian street-walkers and doughboy Bismarcks...
...offense which is tremendously difficult to stop once it gets under way. There are any number of trick plays which develop quickly and with smoothness and precision when the attack is functioning properly. When it isn't going so well, however, the opposing team finds it pretty easy to smear up the spins and passes with a generally demoralizing effect on the whole eleven...