Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois, farmers' friend, recessed Republican, said he was "much impressed" by the Hoover acceptance speech, called the farm relief passages "very heartening," but issued no endorsement of Hooverism...
...Gary of Kansas City to the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. He journeyed, taking Mrs. Coolidge and son John Coolidge with him, to Wausau, Wisconsin, for a state convention of the American Legion, where he clapped a red "overseas" cap on his head and made a speech praising the war-renouncing Kellogg treaty...
Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, refractory Republican, said the Hoover acceptance speech "abounds in glittering generalities. . . . To me it is disappointing and unsatisfactory...
Poverty: (The speech's most eloquent passage): "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but, given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation...
...were experts in friendship; quickly and together they fashioned one, Al and George. A fortnight ago George lay dying. Al got daily bulletins. When George died, Al was almost the first to telephone the relict and her daughter. Busy, he bustled through the most pressing business, put aside his speech, got his friend, Contractor Kenny, to come up with the "St. Nicholas" for quick passage to Chicago. With them went a dozen other friends and his son, Arthur. At Englewood, a company of politicians boarded the train to converse with a strangely unenthusiastic Al. At the La Salle Street Station...