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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding and Coolidge, but I am observant and, I hope reverent. Politics is a trade and a business nowadays. There is no place in it now for holy hymns. My promise to vote for Smith should reassure you that I am not fanatical about the separation of church and state. My protest is simply against what seems to me a particularly crass bit of blasphemy from men who should know better. "Christian Soldiers" indeed! Faugh...
...authorized by the Greek Government to categorically deny the truth of the Vienna-Belgrade despatches and to state that they are utterly false...
...Governor Fred R. Zimmerman of Wisconsin, who in 1924 was part of his State's "bolt" from the convention that nominated Calvin Coolidge to the skirmishers who later nominated the late La-Follette. Governor Zimmerman, prodigal, visited President Coolidge at Brule, Wis. (see p. 7). Governor Zimmerman, candidate for reelection, began opening Hoover-Zimmerman clubs. Governor Zimmerman said that after the eight-year (1912-1920) Democratic régime in Washington "it is but a miracle that there is anything at all left of America to be corrupt with." This was a rebuttal of current Democratic talk about...
...Bostonians and the delight of others, she said: "I am going to speak of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. He, too, came of the people. . . . America gave him his chance and he grasped it. He has made good use of that chance for the benefit of his State and perhaps he will use it for the benefit of the United States" (stormy applause...
There is a saying in New York State that Governor Smith was four times elected by the stupidity of his opponents. Loudest of his opponents was Theodore Roosevelt the younger. Last week, notwithstanding Chairman Work's announcement that the Hoover campaign would not indulge in personal attacks, Theodore Roosevelt the younger spoke at Rochester, N.Y., a speech he had learned by heart during previous anti-Smith campaigns. He elaborately explained that no man would question Governor Smith's personal integrity. Then he juxtaposed the Smith name with a sewer scandal, a gambling pool, a milk scandal, and with...