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After a dash to Portland, Maine, for a campaign talk, the Democratic nominee backracked to Boston. There he made a full-length political speech on the dual theme of advocating immediate Unemployment relief and castigating President Hoover for delay and inaction. Said he: "What we need in Washington is less fact-finding and more-thinking." Stoutly declaring that he would not "reply in kind" to personalities indulged in by the President, Governor Roosevelt observed that in the heat of the campaign the President's "dignity died"; that the President "cannot get action from Congress," "seems unable to co-operate," "cannot...
...Commercial illustrator in New York for four years, drawing full-length portraits of vacuum cleaners and canned soup...
...with new paint. It looked like rain. Two raincoats were put aboard his private car for rear platform appearances. Ahead of the special ran a pilot locomotive over rails carefully inspected a few hours before, over switches spiked down hard. In his car Candidate Hoover touched up his first full-length stump speech which was to open his campaign at Des Moines...
...Insull Monstrosity." Next stop was Portland. Governor Roosevelt's reception was noticeably cooler than in Seattle. His third full-length address was on the power issue. Even the Republican Press conceded that it was factually sound and rang true. He began with a slashing attack upon "certain great private utility corporations" for what he called their "systematic, subtle, deliberate and unprincipled campaign of misinformation, propaganda, lies and falsehood." He charged them, in addition, with overcapitalization, rigging State public service commissions, selfish nearsightedness. He specified...
...private car Pioneer, hitched to a special train, zig-zagged through ten States on its vote-seeking way to the coast. At Topeka Governor Roosevelt delivered a full-length address on agriculture. At Salt Lake City he delivered another on railroads. At Denver he was photographed giving a dirt farmer a high Harvard handshake. Prairie towns along the track turned out good crowds to greet him. They were not so large or so noisy as those that appeared in the same area four years ago for Al Smith but they seemed more likely to vote for the party...