Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Sanders is no Mark Hanna. His campaign direction to date has been remote and uncertain. For historical comfort last week he went back to 1880 when Maine elected a Democratic Governor in September and the nation a Republican President (Garfield) in November. From Chicago he telegraphed the President...
...gloomy brownstone repository for the cast off knicknacks of Society. There in an undignified jumble are gilt chairs, slightly nicked, hand painted lamps, ormulu clocks, embossed silverware, picture frames, bronze cupids and napoleons. Back & forth among them move questing vultures: second-hand dealers, boarding house keepers, inquisitive ladies of uncertain...
...second term. Last week Kentucky Republicans, greatly heartened by a jinx that favored their candidate, assembled at Louisville, picked Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher as their senatorial nominee. Onetime Governor Sampson, acclaiming Nominee Thatcher as an "everlasting Dry,'' key-noted thus: "We'll replace this wobbly, uncertain, barking Barkley who a few years ago was taking the Anti-Saloon League's money to make speeches and turned Wet overnight when the Vice-Presidency was dangled before his eyes. Our nominee will beat not one Barkley but four Barkleys-the Free Trade Barkley, the Protectionist Barkley...
...altogether a bad sign. "Our epoch . . . believes itself more than all the rest, and at the same time feels that it is a beginning. What expression shall we find for it? Perhaps this one: superior to other times, inferior to itself. Strong, indeed, and at the same time uncertain of its destiny; proud of its strength and at the same time fearing it." Most of his book is an analytical arraignment of the mass-mind, tyrant of the age. "The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim...
...nothing from a President Roosevelt. Good Democrats like Bernard Mannes Baruch have been ignored. They feel that the presidential nominee has taken from them without so much as a "thank you" the high-powered political machine which they formed, fixed and financed. He, they think, is a wobbly and uncertain character who badly needs "running." Their one hope is that he will wobble away from his new allies...