Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrat again became Governor of New York despite a national Republican landslide (as Smith had done in 1924). The victor was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had, in 1920, in 1924, and 1928 placed the name of Smith before Democratic Conventions, and who had dubbed him The Happy Warrior. With his Warrior in unhappy defeat, Governor-Elect Roosevelt took small pleasure in predictions that he himself might be the hope of an, at least momentarily, nationally hopeless Democracy. Also, since he had not yet entirely recovered from paralysis of the legs, Mr. Roosevelt could not confidently contemplate long years of public...
Next morning, the Smith family left Boston after the Happy Warrior had told Senator Walsh: "Only God knows what is in store for me in the future, but I want to put this on record before I leave the confines of Boston?that I never shall forget to the end of my life the reception given me by the people of Massachusetts...
Three halls, jammed as they had never been jammed before, received the Happy Warrior that night. First, he went to Mechanics and Symphony Halls, where 17.000 people risked limb, if not life, for two smiles and two dozen words by the Nominee, and for a long wait until his speech came in over the radio from the Boston Arena. It was after 9 o'clock when he reached the Arena, stuffy and emotionally boiling with 19,000 persons, where no more than 15,000 persons had ever been able to get in together before. Mrs. Francis B. Sayre (whom President...
...dozen organizations to include under the Hoover banner voters of both parties and every conceivable degree of undergraduate. It finds that Smith supporters are satisfied to be called simply Smith supporters. To these men it holds open the opportunity of working sincerely for the election of The Happy Warrior. David E. Scoll...
...limited to 300, and tickets are now on sale at the Union newstand. He is nominee for Governor of New York, and has just been campaigning for Alfred Smith in the South. It was Mr. Roosevelt who nominated Smith for President and applied to him the name of "happy warrior...