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Republican Handsprings
Anderson, Paul Y. | August 31, 1932 issue

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According to Republican editors and their trained seals the U.S. President Herbert Hoover's scramble for reelection was vastly accelerated by his speech of acceptance. Only those gifted with supernatural powers can know to a certainty whether this is true but it is difficult to perceive the logic of it unless on the theory that one can fool a majority of the people enough of the time. The public is notorious for a short memory, but four years is not so long and surely there are millions who have recognized in the speech a sweeping repudiation of the one which the same candidate delivered in 1928. The country's mounting reaction to events of "Bloody Thursday" has inspired a mortal fear among those who were responsible.

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HOOVER, Herbert, 1874-1964; JOURNALISTS; ELECTIONS; PUBLIC opinion; PRESIDENTS; UNITED States
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