MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Whispering has won more Presidential campaigns than oratory ever has, and the Republicans are eerily skilled in it. No official sanction is given to whispering, of course, but there is a benign attitude at [party headquarters] which "the boys" understand. In 1928 the whisper ran through the South that the Democrats ought to be defeated for nominating a Catholic [in New York Gov. Al Smith]. In 1932, the soft breezes carry a suggestion to New England, New York and Illinois that the Democrats ought to lose because they refused to nominate a Catholic [the same, but now former Gov. Smith]. Industrial workers somehow hear that times may be worse if the Democrats and "radicals" are allowed to check the sure return of recovery, led by the President [Hoover, running for re-election]. Even a Republican Senator did not hesitate to make the sly suggestion that a candidate who had been afflicted with polio...would naturally debate in terms of "Alice in Wonderland."