Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best campaigner President Hoover last week marched into doubtful Ohio, gave his Democratic critics a strong tongue-lashing at Cleveland, marched back to Washington all within 27 hours. His first speech fortnight ago at Des Moines had been temperately warm in its condemnation of his opponents and their political tactics. Speech No. 2 by Lake Erie's shore boiled and bubbled with hot personal indignation. President Hoover believes that Governor Roosevelt & henchmen are trying to steal the presidency from him with lies about his past and misrepresentations about his present. Radio listeners who heard only the Hoover voice imagined...
Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were never good warm friends during the five years one was President and the other Secretary of Commerce. President Coolidge had a trick of shoveling unpleasant Government jobs off on Secretary Hoover and then stepping harshly on his sensitive ego. After Mr. Hoover's election. President Coolidge was considerably irked by the public adulation of his successor. When a White House visitor asked him what he was going to do about Muscle Shoals President Coolidge snapped: "I'll leave that to the Superman " In retirement Citizen Coolidge was frequently reported to be getting...
...desk tighter than any chief executive ever did. The country had lost sight of him as a human being. Since his renomination in June he had left the burden of his campaign to nonelective Cabinet members who could not ask for votes in their own right. All their warm words failed to bring to life the silent, remote figure in Washington. Now, barely a month before the election and with the political tide running against him, he at last took the stump in his own behalf. As he crossed the line into his native Iowa, he thawed to the welcome...
Veiled Prophet In St. Louis crowds stamped their feet to keep warm waiting for the 53rd appearance of the Veiled Prophet. Thoughtfully he emerged 15 min. ahead of time from the fastness of "Khorassan.'' a dingy car barn on Ranken Avenue. With him came forth 19 floats depicting scenes from the life of Washington, towed by caparisoned horses along the street car tracks...
...London, Crown Prince Mihai spent a few exciting days. He went to the South Kensington Science Museum, drove a fire-engine, was allowed to warm up the engine of one of his mother's cars, had tea in Buckingham Palace. Suddenly King Carol cancelled the rest of his son's vacation, ordered him back to Bucharest. Princess Helen motored her son down to Dover, bade him a tearful farewell. "I'll try to telephone you, mummy, but they won't let me," he cried...