Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening Mr. Hoover spoke in St. Louis, President Coolidge sat near a White House radio. When the speech was finished, the President sent out for his secretary and dictated a long campaign telegram, concluding ". . . All the discussion has made more plain the wisdom of the plans you have proposed for solving our political, economic and social problems. You have shown your fitness to be President...
...Billy Sunday speeches through the South were paid for by Anti-Salooners, eight speeches at $200 per speech, including a revival in the church which President Coolidge attends (First Congregational, Washington). This attack was broadcast by the Fellowship Forum, national Klanpaper...
...Coolidge policies. Nominee Smith's stand for government control of water power is as well known as his first name. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission discovered to what extent the power lobby had been manipulating to make water power safe for privateers. The Republican platform and acceptance speech ignored, the Democratic platform and acceptance speech denounced, these manipulations...
There are only eight electoral votes in Nebraska. But farmers went from many states around to hear the speech. Radio carried it still further. Republicans in the Dakotas, Iowa and Minnesota followed Norris "out of camp." President H. G. Keeney of the Nebraska Farmers Union, oldtime Republican, presided at the Omaha meeting...
Republicans said that she thus expressed what would be the most general result of her husband's speech. They took comfort from an editorial in LaFollette's Magazine by Youngest Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, to whom Senator Norris is a political foster-father. Senator LaFollette flayed Nominee Hoover and said : "Governor Smith has made public declarations and definite commitments which are in substantial accord with the progressive view on water power, farm relief, the in junction in labor disputes, corruption in the public service and abuse of the presi dential power in Nicaragua." But he did not actually...