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Third: He is conducting his campaign on a high plane of constructive argument. He does not stoop to raucous denunciation, he does not rant. He speaks as a serious student of national problems, recognizing their difficulties, and dealing with them as an engineer and economist. He does not make promises which he knows that he can not fulfill leaving himself loopholes of escape from their literal fulfillment. He has not tried to carry water on both shoulders by appealing both to the wets and the drys, both to the free traders and the protectionists, both to big business...
...they found how unRooseveltian Taft was, they were vexed. Their clamor pained and confused him. The late Senator Dolliver described him as a large, amiable island surrounded by people who knew just what they wanted. "Figuratively," as William Allen White says, "he used to come out upon the front stoop of the White House and quarrel petulantly with the American people every...
...done. Governor Smith has made his demonstration. ... I shall vote for Governor Smith as the man with the greatest demonstrated capacity for political leadership of any I have ever known. . . . He is one of the few great leaders of masses in all history who does not stoop to the tactics of the demagog .... No political leader in the world today, so far as I know-and I know most of them-has as much capacity for mass leadership as he."-Owen D. Young, Board Chairman of the General Electric Co., co-author of the so-called Dawes Plan...
Alighting from her limousine Queen Mary climbed the stoop, pressed the bell. She waited some time, for a new, slow and surly Cockney wench had just been taken into service by the home...
...were king-ah love, if I were king-What tributary nations would I bring To stoop before your sceptre and to swear Allegiance to your lips and eyes and hair, Beneath your feet what treasures I would fling-The stars should be your pearls upon a string, The world a ruby for your finger ring And you should have the sun and moon to wear If I were king...