Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restless Northwest, the chances of a Progressive-Democratic sweep were lessened when Senators Frazier of North Dakota and Howell of Nebraska, both very vaguely Republican, decided to campaign as Hooverites despite the opposite action of their Progressive and Farmer-Labor comrades in Minnesota and Wisconsin...
...which Nominee Hoover had already discussed with Governor McMullen of Nebraska. The latter had announced that a special session was promised, but had been promptly contradicted by Hoover headquarters. After receiving Senator Borah, Nominee Hoover was still reluctant bui the Borah pressure was great. Senator Norris had "bolted." The northwest looked dangerous. Nomi nee Hoover finally issued a guarded prom ise for the special session...
James W. Good, Hooverizer of the West, met the Smith invasion with a State-claiming announcement that included even Texas. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican candidate for Congressman-at-large, diverted some attention with a barbecue at her farm northwest of Chicago, at which 10,000 Republicans consumed six tons of beef and pork, 200 barrels of potatoes, five truckloads of bread. But it was a prime moment for the Brown Derby to be in the heart of the Midlands. Just before he got there, the Salt Creek oil scandal had broken, involving National G. O. P. Chairman Work...
...nothing committal. It was still possible for Nominee Curtis, who went stumping through Wisconsin last week, to endorse the young man's candidacy for re-election to the Senate. "That brilliant young man," Nominee Curtis called him, in what seemed an importunate plea to keep the Progressives of the Northwest in line for the Hoover-Curtis ticket...
...that brilliant young man" was believed to be holding his fire. He had more to gain, for his own cause of getting Progressives elected to Congress throughout the Northwest, by waiting for a more dramatic moment to declare himself. He had much to lose from his reputation for square-speaking if he did not ultimately declare himself. Because, besides the utterances of the LaFollette organs, there were other elements and developments...