Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very few bad appointments would destroy this [favorable] view of Mr. Hoover in the South and wreck the very substantial foundation for a strong Republican party which has been begun in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. . . ." Adroit, he added: "Unless a very high-class Republican can be found for appointment to any local office, a Demo-crat should be named...
Brow-wrinkling in Florida, Herbert Hoover last week sought a realistic answer to the Republican party's most headachy riddle: How can the G. O. P.'s gains in the South be consolidated and permanently retained...
...help Mr. Hoover, Col. Horace A. Mann of Tennessee, chief undercover Hooverizer of the South during the campaign, was established in a Miami Beach hotel to greet Southern politicians of all colors and conditions; to listen to their tales, dispel their fears, promise them nothing. Meanwhile, into the Hoover presence were ushered a few Southern gentlemen, ponderously respectable, eager to impart advice, to deplore the Negro's domination of Southern Republican politics. Infinitely patient, the President-Elect listened and listened...
...Lily Whites." Upon how the G. O. P. treats the Negro in the South depends, to a large extent, the Negro vote in Northern States like Ohio and Illinois, where it is often crucial. The white gentlemen, exponents of the "New South," urged Mr. Hoover to buttress and continue the revolt against the "black machines" of the South, to cultivate the "lily-white" movement by which it is hoped to Republicanize permanently many a Southern Democrat whose party faith was shaken by Rum and Romanism...
Richard Haile, once a grocer, now a mortician; for twelve years (1912-1924) National Committeeman from South Carolina, and still a most influential adviser of white Committeeman Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert...