Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic in this country believes that the welfare, the wellbeing, the prosperity, the growth and the expansion of the United States is best conserved and best promoted by the election of Mr. Hoover, I want him to vote for Hoover...
...feel like splurging the Republican candidate with the responsibility for the whispering, bigoted campaign that is carried on in contradiction to the Declaration of Independence, but there are men in this country who would refuse to be President if they got it with that kind of a vote...
...Where does he [Nominee Hoover] compare, if you will-and I dare challenge itin his Americanism with Alfred E. Smith? . . . When Mr. Hoover cast his first American vote, after his many years in the Orient, in Australia and other places, Alfred E. Smith was Governor of New York. From 1902 to 1912, Mr. Hoover's official address was London, England. I don't propose to criticize him for that, nor do I propose to forget Mr. Hoover's great humanitarian work during the War. But at the same time Governor Smith was engaged in humanitarian work...
...Senate in 1919 which charged that the Hoover-headed Food Administration was "directed and controlled by" three of the "vast monopolies which control food in this country." Senator Borah had cited figures and said: "I do not want any man to operate a trust fund by my vote who thinks that those figures represent decency or honesty...
...progressives, vigorously and wholeheartedly indorsed Nominee Smith's stand on water power and farm relief. He scoffed at Nominee Hoover's farm remarks as "meaningless" and flayed the chubby man for his silence on the power trust. While Senator Norris did not commit himself to vote for Smith, he will take the stump for Democratic Senators Wheeler of Montana and Dill of Washington...