Word: cratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney General; Utah's Harold M. Stephen, Florida's Frank J. Wideman to be Assistant Attorneys General; Tennessee's John Harcourt Alexander Morgan* and Wisconsin's David E. Lilienthal to be Tennessee Valley Authority directors; Pennsylvania's Carroll Miller, brother-in-law of Demo-cratic Boss "Joe" Guffey, to be an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. ¶A White House caller last week was pretty Margaret Kruis, who was wounded in the head last February when Joe Zangara attempted to assassinate the President-elect at Miami. President Roosevelt recalled that he had visited Miss Kruis...
...pleasure, but I can endure it when I think of Mr. Curtis. . . . Should Mr. Hoover be elected there is no chance now in sight that he will command a working majority in either branch of Congress. . . . The country will obtain a more coherent government from a Demo-cratic Congress led by Mr. Roosevelt than from a Democratic Congress in perpetual deadlock with Mr. Hoover...
...John Francis Curry. Tammany's boss, summoned his followers to the Wigwam to prepare a Supreme Court slate for the Manhattan-Bronx district. First nominated was Aron Steuer. 33-year-old son of Max Steuer, slick crook-defender and smart Tammany tactician. Then up rose John McNaboe, a Demo-cratic State Senator who had fought tooth & nail against the investigation of Tammany scandals by the legislative committee of which he was a minority member (TIME, April...
...MAKING OF A PRESIDENT?H. L. Mencken?Knopf ($1.50). Reprints of Mencken's newspaper reports of the Republican and Demo cratic Conventions...
...Follette eyed the chamber coldly and remarked that unless something was done pretty quickly "there would be some empty seats in the next Senate." It was about this time that the weather-vane abruptly whirred about. Aware that final say on the matter would be up to a Demo-cratic House, the Senate's Republican majority sat by and let Democratic Senators fight it out among themselves...