Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vice President Curtis looked over President Hoover's right shoulder, watched him pick up a pen, dip it in ink, write at the bottom of the document the word "Herbert." Then he put the pen down. Speaker Longworth, on the left, watched him pick up a second pen, dip it in ink, write the word '"Hoover." Then the President looked up, smiled. He had got at last what he wanted as farm relief...
...last year. When Senator T. J. Holbrook used the phrase "political nigger lovers" in denouncing Mrs. De Priest's visit to the White House, Senator Love rushed at him savagely, shouting: "Any man who says the 300,000 Texans who voted for Hoover are nigger-lovers has the word LIAR branded across his brow." In Florida, another Negro-subjugating state that voted for Hoover, a resolution was passed, 71 to 13, in the state house, condemning "certain social policies of the administration. . . ." In presenting it, Representative Way, Democrat, said: "The State of Florida has been betrayed...
...awkward start when he said: "If and when the Government has made it possible for the industry to cooperate and conserve and that co-operation and conservation are not forthcoming, then no one will be more insistent than myself in urging rigid government coercive regulation." The word coercive brought the industry to its feet in instant protest...
Chairman Requa hastened to reply that his words had been taken "too literally." Said he: "Any thought of coercive legislation is unthinkable." But the word echoed unhappily. From Washington came Senatorial rumblings that any policy of coercion would be "bitterly repudiated...
...crowds cheered wildly when word came of applause in Galveston for rose-garlanded Olga. Two hours later, dismayed, they saw the words flash...