Word: speeching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prohibition and the tariff, stood in general for "a European philosophy . . ., state socialism," while he, the Republican, stood for "the American system of rugged individualism . . . diametrically opposed." It was a shrewd thing to try to do in the financial capital of the U. S. But it was a difficult speech to grasp. It seemed to overshoot the mark...
Then followed, succinctly, the story of the Salt Creek lease, winding up with the refrain of the whole speech, a phrase from the Republican platform: "The record of the present Administration is a guarantee of what may be expected of the next...
Second largest donor was National Chairman John J. Raskob. Since Oct. i he had doubled his original contribution of $50,000. In addition, at a party benefit auction last week, Mr. Raskob paid $10,000 for a fine-printed copy of the Smith acceptance speech-a gift for Mrs. Smith. Presumably it is impossible for Chairman Raskob to distinguish between what would be his normal personal expenses and the miscellaneous outlay that he must make personally in the course of running the campaign. Perhaps he has thus informally contributed more than anyone else...
Candidates for state offices had been talking for hours before Nominee Smith arrived. The crowd was not greatly excited by the Smith speech when it proved to be a detailed attack on "Coolidge economy." All those present got the main point: that any great reduction in the cost of running the Government after 1921 was more likely the natural result of the return of the country to a peacetime basis than the phenomenal result of "rigorous" economy. But scores of auditors were sidling through the exits before the Nominee finished adducing details to prove his point. This was, perhaps, just...
...campaign. At Sedalia, Nominee Smith said the Government's fiscal reports were ''about as near a Chinese puzzle as anything I ever saw in my life.'' Mr. Mellon retorted that this was "perhaps the most accurate statement in Governor Smith's entire speech." In Chicago, Governor Smith retorted: "If it is a Chinese puzzle to me with all my experience in diving into governmental figures running over a quarter of a century, what must it be to the fellow on the sidewalk? . . . I frankly admit it is a Chinese puzzle. I do not conceal...