Word: bearers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protested against a leadership that has shattered the city's credit and made the people of this city bow their heads - an arrogant leadership of stupidity and corruption, unmatched since the days of Boss Tweed. . . . There is no real Fusion in this campaign. The so-called Fusion standard bearer is as objectionable to the solid element of our Republican citizenry as he is to the vast army of Democrats who are disgusted with machine politics. ... As Mayor, I shall be absolutely free from political domination by any leader or any set of leaders...
...Commissioner Buchan stayed at Holyrood Palace, where the town officers of Edinburgh ceremoniously gave him keys to the city (which by custom he handed back at once). Day the Assembly opened, he drove first to St. Giles's Cathedral and then to Assembly Hall, with his wife, purse-bearer, aides-de-camp, ladies-in-waiting and cavalry escort. Cannon thundered a royal salute. The Lord High Commissioner read a letter of commendation from the King. Thereafter he visited the Assembly daily, spent some of his ?2,000 on garden parties and other functions for the delegates...
Early returns from Indiana, gave the Republican standard bearer of that state four to one. Voting in Massachusetts was close, but it was believed that even here Roosevelt would forge into the lead...
...heard a familiar voice: "For the good of the nation we must re-elect Herbert Hoover. We don't want our country to be made a laboratory for wholesale experiments in government ownership, tariff tinkering or currency inflation. I don't accuse the Democratic standard bearer of advocating all these theories but any sensible individual knows that when you marry you don't merely marry your wife but her family as well." The speaker was Mrs. Derby's older brother Theodore, Governor General of the Philippines, broadcasting to the U. S. from Manila...
...defeated and driven back, not by police clubs and riot guns, but by the adjournment of a determined Congress. Gradually the veterans drifted back to the Anacostia mudflats. Leader Robertson called off his picket line. To continue their demonstration 60 of his men followed a lone flag-bearer down to the White House. Its iron gates were slammed shut. Police reserves trotted up. The demonstrations were forced off Pennsylvania Avenue, across Lafayette Park. A handful were arrested, all traffic was diverted. The White House was left a gleaming island within a circle of armed protection...