Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without constructive ideas about his party's future. In the same breath with which he condemned Mr. Raskob, he hailed the man to whom Governor Smith's, political potency had obviously passed. Said he: "The tremendous vote given Franklin D. Roosevelt by the citizens of the Empire State [for Governor] attest the esteem in which he is held by the people of the State and mark for him a continuous and growing place among the leaders of thought in national affairs...
...record, a Republican Legislature began at once to prepare embarrassing features. The chief plan was to pass a State prohibition act, like the one Governor Smith got repealed, and dare Governor Roosevelt to veto it. That, they thought, would ruin him as a presidential possibility if by other bedevilments they could not prevent his re-election...
Another utterance he made last week seemed not without political felicity, not a bad starter towards girding up his party nationally against 1932. When the Smith returns were in, he telegraphed to National Committeeman John S. Cohen of Georgia: "Please tell the people of Georgia, my other State, that I am proud of the splendid way in which they have demonstrated their loyalty to the Democracy...
Vaguely he began an extemporaneous address, urging the people to be calm and ignore firebrands who wanted to proclaim a Soviet State. Gradually the magnetic fervor of the crowd fired Socialist Scheidemann. Suddenly he found himself shouting: "Long live the German Republic...
Readers of the U. S. best seller Bad Girl by Viña Delmar, were intrigued by announcements that the "Season" is now opening at Chile's famed watering place, Vina del Mar. Authoress Delmar's publishers, Harcourt Brace & Co., state that they are informed concerning her as follows...