I've never even heard before. He also offered to vacate his cabinet post. 84–86, 91; Loughery, p. Evidence presented at Kent's second trial strongly suggests his guilt. Privately, Roosevelt dismissed Hughes as a "bearded iceberg" and the "whiskered Wilson, " 61. once remarking that the only difference between Wilson and Hughes was "a shave. " Putnam's Sons, 1948.
He just didn't want to fight, or have any workingman, fight for capitalism. The country could ill afford a powerless lame-duck president and a lengthy transition period. 414–415; Downes, p. 555. Harder still, if one arrived at the peace table carrying one grotesquely heavy piece of baggage: Point XIV, "a general association of nations... for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. " Wilson openly repays Harvey with ingratitude and scorn. New York: Minton, Balch, 1933. Again, he made good, solving technical mining problems, placing a veneer of efficiency on a land of uncivilized chaos, inspiring the loyalty of subordinates (who called the youngster "the Chief, " as, henceforth, would all his subordinates), and the admiration of his superiors. In profile, he looked positively Taftian. A successful capitalist, he made all the right progressive noises. Anyone who hears or reads his public utterances is free to pass upon his intellectual and moral traits. 32, 114–121; Sinclair (Available Man), p. 283; Schlesinger, p. Listen to uncle ruckus the presidents a niger.com. 426. never raised the question again: Sinclair (Available Man), pp.
Republicans could also remind new Americans not only of Woodrow Wilson's actions at Versailles, but of his long-standing attitudes toward non–Anglo-Saxons. 107–108; Anthony (First Ladies), p. 505. Following the convention, Stedman and Hillquit led a 160-person delegation to Washington to petition Palmer for Debs's release. Present at Wilson's inaugural as university president, he departed Princeton, convinced that Wilson was a great man, the embodiment of the leadership Democrats needed to recapture the White House. Unhurt, Cox aided the injured. Far more colorful—and infinitely more controversial—was California Senator Hiram Warren Johnson, described by one historian as looking "like a bad-tempered baby" and by a contemporary as a man who "would have enjoyed the French Revolution. Listen to uncle ruckus the presidents a niger.org. " Relieved, I dozed off again until after eight.
Just started writing it, but I do have a cover. The convention could not have made a better choice": NY Times, 7 July 1920, p. 331. not to be found in our public life": The Nation, 17 July 1920, p. "When parties can pick a man like Frank... decent future in politics": C. 332.... /s/ Herbert Hoover: Carlin, Cole, Miller, and Walch, p. 8; Davis, p. 615; Freidel (The Ordeal), p. 69 fn. This man was a traitor to his country and he will never be pardoned during my administration. Warren Harding was a dark horse—but not all that dark. He was a man of energy and ambition, a doer of great deeds, a candidate who couldn't miss. I am a citizen of the world. " He received ten years. Even without Miss Gaston, the convention's 984 voting delegates faced hard choices and arrived without a hint of consensus. Listen to uncle ruckus the presidents a nigger. "What a pity it was ever uttered! And this is the House of Death—sudden, violent, or peculiar death. She was eighty-nine. Let's have a different set.
Copyright © 2007 by David Pietrusza Hardcover edition first published in 2007 by Carroll & Graf Publishers Paperback edition first published in 2008 by Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved. Not surprisingly, Roosevelt tired of his idea of Taft as his replacement— actually, of the idea of anyone as his replacement—almost faster than the above-referenced equine must have wearied of Taft. The Available Man: The Life Behind the Mask of Warren Gamaliel Harding. Hoover cajoled, exhorted, conserved, eliminated waste, published cookbooks, and instituted such gimmicks as wheatless Wednesdays and meatless Mondays. Perhaps he could not. 155–166; Sullivan (VI), p. 106; Dean, p. 70; Anthony (First Ladies), p. 382; Bagby, pp. Civil Service Commissioner, resigning in 1895 to become New York City Police Commissioner, where he continued his reforming ways, disciplining and toughening a force not always New York's finest. "Read the Menace and get the dope, " read one piece of doggerel; "Go to the polls and beat the Pope. " As his campaign ended, FDR arrived in Buffalo. When Josephus Daniels requested the same accommodations, Rodman cabled that he had just given FDR the last suite.
The second ballot showed significant Lowden movement, and not enough by Johnson: Wood 2891/2 Lowden 2491/2 Johnson 146 Sproul 781/2 Harding 59 Butler 41 Coolidge 32 La Follette 24 Poindexter 15 Sutherland 15 Pritchard 10 du Pont 7 Hoover 51/2 Knox 1 Borah 1 219. Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill, ed. She refused to serve liquor at home—much to the chagrin of her husband, who had squirreled away four cases of "Old Reserve" at $1. Peck thought Edith "Junoesque. " Nan darling, as—my—wife. "
Mencken stood on a chair, keeping time. 5 per cent of the women. 245–246; Bailey (Lost Peace), p. 209; Dos Passos (Mr. 474–475; Coit, p. 251; Watt, p. 87; George and George, p. 240; MacMillan, p. 175. "I am not Senator Lodge's keeper, " Wilson snapped. The opposition still maneuvered. Despite FDR's support, McAdoo, a senator from California, was denied renomination in 1938.
Cox, with his wife and his daughter and son-in-law, waited in line for fifteen minutes, making small talk about going bearhunting in Mississippi after the election. Edith was less impressed, dismissing the now-fifty-seven-year-old Mary (nine years her senior) as "a faded, sweet-looking woman... absorbed in an only son. " The South and the upper Midwest remained stubbornly rural. 98–102, 238; R. 123–125; Sullivan (VI), p. 172; Pfannestiel, passim; Draper, pp. Always a Wet, he had long battled the Ohio Anti-Saloon League. Georgia State Senator J. J. Flynt shot back: We are not willing to have rammed down our throat this amendment... which violates that sacred principle of states' rights and 298. the spirit of which is in direct opposition to every principle for which the Democratic Party stands.
In Chicago, the Tribune provided fourteen sites (most complete with bands) where, starting at 6:30 P. M., the public watched returns being posted. Aboard were Woodrow and Edith Wilson, eight Secret Service men, Secretary of State Robert Lansing, and retired diplomat Henry White, the only Republican on Wilson's peace commission. Mecklin, John Moffatt. 455–476; Du Bois (Autobiography), pp. No sitting president should have sat day after day, week after week, in Paris, listening to minute details of European boundaries, harangued by diplomats settling scores of centuries-old grudges at a single conference. Debs, now "Prisoner No. Some mistakes were made, always are I suppose, but the ones this year were so foolish [that] I do not see how they could have been made by men really trying to elect the ticket. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1920. Next, they'll be throwing. Gonna look like: It's called, They Called Me Nigger: One Family's Struggle. He wrote his father: I did not want to go on a trip. She became a Democrat and is drawing a fat salary now in that party. One was disemboweled and another had an ugly wound from which he later died. Judge Webster Thayer, presiding judge in the Sacco and Vanzetti case, lost his Worcester, Massachusetts home to a bomb on the night of September 27, 1932.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1975. Pennsylvania's senators were a fragile bunch. Parties have to live with candidates, and Democrats had yet to ballot for anyone, yet alone nominate anyone—which meant that the real game was just beginning. But the worst was yet to come. Debs was seeking a typical wife but an unusual marriage. " Republicans rejected it. When an influential backer first boomed him for president, the man listed thirteen of Wilson's qualifications.
"I was so impressed with Franklin Roosevelt, " he would recall, "his seriousness, his earnestness, his firm dedication to his cause, that from that moment we became friends—and almost at that very first meeting I made up my mind that he was Presidential timber and that nothing but an accident could keep him from becoming President of the United States. " It would have been adopted in normal times.... Just about everyone had a nifty title: "Great Titans" and "Grand Dragons" and "Kludds" (chaplains), "Kligrapps" (secretaries), and "Klabees" (treasurers). Reaching Butte, Montana, on Wednesday, August 18, FDR had been struggling with the issue for days. The wiry McCamant wasn't the only one voting for Wood.
Bryan not only addressed the convention—he made it cheer. On September 16, anarchist Michael Buda bombed Wall Street. The letter didn't say vote Democratic, but outraged Republicans knew it meant vote Democratic. Neither Harding nor Lowden, both next-door neighbors, could afford to lose the state, particularly Harding, who enjoyed the support of Indiana's two United States Senators, James E. Watson and Harry New.
Before the war[, ] he had a perfect right to exercise his freedom of speech and to express his own opinion, but once the Congress... declared war, silence on his part would have been the proper course to pursue. Coolidge and Curtis considered the men deserters in time of crisis, who should never be allowed back. Some said Brasol had been brought to Ford by the Independent's attorney, Charles C. Daniels—Josephus's fiftyfive-year-old younger brother.