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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election. The Party's very makeup seemed to preclude the possibility of a comeback. In the South it was the party of the established order. In the North and West it was the party of a few political idealists and of strong but disreputable city machines built around the Irish Catholic and foreign-born slum vote. In the South it was the party of Property, Protestantism and Prohibition. In the North it was the party of the Common People, Catholicism and Repeal. Al Smith's defeat in 1928 was proof that these mixed assets were a liability...
...triumph Boss Farley was celebrating was not the party of 1924 nor the party of 1932. It was both and something more. Two years ago Mr. Farley took command of what John Jacob Raskob with lots of money and the brains of Jouett Shouse and Pressagent Charles Michelson, had built up from the wreck of 1928. Since then Democracy's leader in the White House had become a national hero. While still retaining the conservative South, the Party captivated North and West with a new brand of social reform and economic experiment. But, more important from a purely political...
...Washington today are Democrats. Outside Washington the leading conservative movement is the American Liberty League which has John W. Davis, Alfred E. Smith, Irénée du Pont, for directors. Very carefully did the League refrain from entering this year's campaign. Meantime, it has built up a campaign chest, and has been busy recruiting potent members. (Sewell Lee Avery, Harry F. Guggenheim and John J. Raskob were last week slated for its governing board.) To date Liberty Leaguers have only intimated that they will offer the U. S. the inedible Constitution but if the Administration...
Handsome, well-built, Donald Douglas at 42 looks younger than his years. He shuns crowds, prefers the company of a few old cronies. A mediocre pilot, he rarely flies his own planes but does most of his business traveling by regular airlines. His days off he spends yachting. His six-meter boat Gallant represented the U. S. in the last Olympics, and his schooner Endymion has been Pacific Coast champion for the past four years...
...joined Glenn Martin at Los Angeles as chief engineer, left in 1917 to become chief designer for the aviation section of the U. S. signal corps. In 1920 Donald Douglas, at 28, started his own company, on a shoestring. He won a Navy contract against heavy competition, built four planes for the Army's round-the-world flight in 1924, concentrated on military aviation until...