Word: cratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more minutes he chatted on, about the new responsibilities of the Demo cratic party about his dream of bringing Point Four development to the backward areas of the world. Said the President: "I am more than convinced that the Democratic Party, the party of the people, will continue to do [the] job for the welfare of this nation, and for the welfare of the world." Term Indefinite. Then Harry Truman went back to Blair House, where he stayed awake until 11 o'clock listening to the late returns which nailed down the Demo cratic victories. Next day he confided...
When Welles discovered that he could hire an automobile (at $3.50 an hour), he began making side trips out into the country where, he found, the farther he got from Russia's bureau cratic capital the more freely and eagerly people talked to him. Elsewhere, in the ensuing 16 countries he visited, Welles followed the same plan: get a car and start motoring, gather your impressions tourist-style by avoiding the good hotels in the capital cities, stop wherever things look interesting and ask questions...
...During all the years I have served as chairman I had tried, in so far as possible, to give all the time and attention necessary to ... aid in the election of Demo-cratic nominees. In the state and national campaigns during all those years, I devoted all my time from early morning to late at night on behalf of the party's nominees. ... It is not easy for me to break away...
...stand against any tax "forgiveness." Majority Leader John W. McCormack, responding to Ad ministration pressure, and Tennessee's shrewd Jere Cooper, the committee's best tax brain, did the pulling and hauling. Old Muley now came out for cancellation of about half of 1942 taxes; the Demo cratic majority of his committee gave his bill a favorable report...
Angrily, sourly, in grave disunion, the Convention adjourned. And in the swift days after the grunting delegates entrained for home, the effects showed as clearly as Mr. Roosevelt could have wished. Demo cratic lame ducks Holt of West Virginia and Burke of Nebraska announced for Wendell Willkie; so did Booth Tarkington, Irvin S. Cobb; so did the Louisiana sugar planters, and all the men who bolted Roosevelt...