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Did another "Voorhis" go to the Ritter side with the verification that "the only way" the Beauprez campaign could have come up with the intel that they did was through the NCIC data-base?
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He called Voorhis "a poor candidate for rehabilitation.
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“Considering that his words were to be reproduced all over the world in perhaps a million homes, … I thought he showed remarkable composure,” Voorhis wrote in the July 1908 Edison Phonograph Monthly.
Boing Boing 2008
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“Mr. Bryan seemed a little nervous when he first started, much more so, he said, than he ever felt in facing an audience of ten thousand people,” Harold Voorhis recalled.
Boing Boing 2008
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Voorhis was a marked man and was challenging Wall Street power at every opportunity, railing agains the "cancerous superstructure of monopolies and cartels".
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Somebody from the USPS opened the poster tube and STOLE the Evil Dead poster that Catherine Voorhis won in the raffle.
I hope a deadite eats you! apexdigest 2007
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True enough but at a cost so great that (in 1946) it launched Richard Nixon's political career with a vicious red-baiting campaign accusing Voorhis of Communist Party links.
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This, Voorhis maintained, was a violation of the Constitutional provision that “Congress shall have the power to coin money [and] regulate the value thereof.”
Thinking Positively: How "Quantitative Easing" May Be Harnessed for the Public Good 2009
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It was Nixon who would perform the political hit on Voorhis, subjecting him to a withering onlsaught of red baiting propaganda, the sort that would become religion in the U.S. as the war against the unions and the middle class began in earnest.
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Nixon smeared Voorhis as a communist sympathizer, charging that Voorhis had been endorsed by a political-action committee of the CIO that included known communists.
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