Word: demmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York: Herbert Lehman, a friend of President Roosevelt's appeared tonight virtually certain of victory over Robert Moses, his Republican adversary in the gubernatorial race. Sen. Royal S. Copeland, Dem., seemed reasonably certain of reelection...
...differently in different localities. It begins: "Once there [thar, theah] was a young rat [ret, rate] who couldn't make [mek, mack] up his mind. Whenever the other [udder, othah] rats asked [eskt, ast] him if he would like [lake, lack] to come out [oat, aout] with them [dem], he would answer [enser, ahnser], 'I don't know [ah doan-no, I dunno],' and when they said, 'Would you [wouldja] like to stop [stawp] at home [hum, hown]?' he wouldn't say 'yes' or 'no' either [eyether, ether...
Vanderbilt's daughter said befo' she died dey wuz two mo' roads dat she wanted tuh ride, When ev'vy body wonduh what roads dem could be, 'twuz de Eas' Coloraydo an' de Santy...
...work. It is jammed - may I say in three classic haunts, jimmed, gypped and some of it is ready to be junked." In the Administration Building of Chicago's Century of Progress a telephone bell tinkled. A clerk picked up the receiver, heard a voice: "This is George Dem. I'm on my way over to see your fair with a party of six." Minute later the Secretary of War and party rolled up in front of the Administration Building in a taxi. An out-of-breath reception committee greeted them, perspired with embarrassment, apologized that there...
...Chicago and found the country "backward in social legislation" (see p. 15), the President suddenly changed his mind. His message demanded no action from the outgoing Congress. Avoiding most controversial issues it was couched in such general, promising and reassuring terms that politicians took it simply as the Dem-ocratic platform for the 1934 Congressional election...