Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election which he had once hoped would be won by his friend, Frank Orren Lowden, and in which he would gladly have played a principal part himself. The plan to introduce him as preliminary speaker in Nominee Hoover's big drive for the Brown Derby's home state was not lacking in stage effect...
...slowly dawned on the audience that in an indirect, personal but shrewdly purposeful way he was making it appear that the Democratic Nominee, because of his specific proposals in connection with water power, farm relief, 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...
...Every time the Federal Government goes into a commercial business, 531 Senators and Congressmen become the actual board of directors of that business. Every time a state government goes into business, one or two hundred state senators and legislators become the actual directors of that business. Even if they were supermen and if there were no politics in the United States, no body of such numbers could competently direct commercial activities; for that requires initiative, instant decision and action...
Governor Bilbo: Oh, soso. Looks pretty easy for Smith. Think he'll carry the State by 15 to 1. How about Tennessee...
Sedalia. What makes Sedalia, Mo., a famed political spot is a 230-acre enclosure, the State Fair Grounds, with an auditorium that will hold some 10,000 persons. With this edifice packed, a crowd of 35,000 milled outside. They had eaten the town out of food supplies. They were so thick that pickpockets were able to filch $500 from Norman H. Davis ($150 of which he was guarding for Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson), and $125 each from two Manhattan newspapermen...