Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because Nominee Smith was left with an obvious retort. Moreover, as any student of recent political history knew, many a member of Nominee Hoover's own party stood with or near Nominee Smith on the specific proposals described as "social-istic." Vice President Dawes, for example, who had spoken just before Nominee Hoover from the Manhattan platform, had long been an archproponent of the principle involved in the Smith proposal for farm relief. Charles Evans Hughes, at that moment westbound to speak for Nominee Hoover in critical Missouri, had long been an archproponent of the prin ciple involved...
...with Mr! Hoover on the power question. If that were the only issue in this campaign. I could not support him." Senator Borah said the paramount issues were Prohibition and Farm Relief, of a different brand than Smith's. He did not "bolt." Neither did Senator Johnson, loud-spoken champion of a Federal water and power supply for Los Angeles...
James Middleton Cox, the Democratic nominee of eight years ago, went to the Border to counteract the big Republican push there. At Nashville, Tenn., he flayed the inconsistencies of loud-spoken Senator Borah and read long passages from Borah speeches in the Senate flaying Hoover in 1919. He described the Hon. Mr. Borah as a "political adventurer who, in some fashion or other has been under every political flag that has flown in the breeze from the days of free silver until...
...after 9 o'clock when he reached the Arena, stuffy and emotionally boiling with 19,000 persons, where no more than 15,000 persons had ever been able to get in together before. Mrs. Francis B. Sayre (whom President Wilson gave in marriage from the White House) had spoken.? So had Senator David Ignatius Walsh, rocking the building with the announcement that Senator Norris had come out for Nominee Smith (see p. 16). The cheering on the appearance of the Happy Warrior was the peak of the New England trip, perhaps the peak of his campaign. When...
...spoken tersely, beginning as follows: 'To my mind, there are three fundamental issues in this campaign, each going to the very heart of our government itself...