Word: snell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Onions & Demagogs. Republicans quickly hopped on the Topeka speech because Governor Roosevelt had offered no specific plan of relief. He was charged with being deliberately vague and misleading. Representative Snell pointed to the fact that Democrats from Speaker Garner down had pressed the Farm Board to undertake stabilization operations. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde observed: "My admiration for Al Smith rises higher with each new Roosevelt speech. Al not only knows his onions but his demagogs as well...
...speech. Sometimes it was real and spontaneous after he had worked up to a major point. More often it was ill-timed and artificial, a burst of irrational sound after a minor sentence. Leaders of the platform claque were observed to be National Chairman Sanders, Senator Moses, Representative Snell. Their insistent clapping and cheering gave a jerky, disconnected effect to the 7,000-word speech over which President Hoover had worked for weeks. "In accepting the great honor you have brought me." the President began in his plodding, somewhat mournful voice, "I desire to speak so simply and so plainly...
...world record seemed to be within U. S. grasp. Walter Snell of Providence, R. I. flew a one-kilometre course at 38.7 m. p. h. Existing world record: Germany...
Minority Leader Snell went into the well to make the Republican retort: "I've listened to the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee's speech of acceptance. ... He has made a more direct appeal for class distinction than has been made this session. If the Speaker ever made a demagogic appeal, he made that appeal here today...
Another Rogerism: "He [Chairman Snell] said that while our Savior had rescued the world in Biblical times from the Democrats, masquerading as the Medes and Persians, that Herbert Hoover was the modern Savior. In fact he kinder gave the engineer the edge over the carpenter...