Word: demo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Miss Rosamond Pinchot, 23, actress (The Miracle; now with the Reinhardt Co.), niece of onetime Governor of Pennsylvania Gifford Pinchot; to William Gaston, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Colonel William Alexander Gaston, potent Boston lawyer, onetime (1902) Demo- cratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts; at West Chester...
Towards breaking up such a strongly entrenched party, a minority political faction is important, Senator Walsh pointed out, and added that the Demo- cratic party will be important in the approaching campaign in bringing to light corrupt practices...
...first fight was the Greb-Wilson bout for the middle-weight championship (1524). His prominence extended with World's Series baseball. His first great national, non-sporting events were the Demo-cratic and Republican Conventions of 1924; his most famed, the Lindbergh receptions this summer. At the Radio World Fair in 1925, he won a solid gold cup (in the form of a microphone) as most popular announcer in the U. S., receiving 189,470 votes out of 1,161,659. He receives a huge "fan" mail, including marriage proposals. He is married to Josephine Garrett, concert and church soprano...
...some work, which, whether valuable or not, I would rather have appraised by others." At this the farmers nodded sagely. Not so the pressmen. They, more canny critics, immediately began to reflect upon Mr. Reed's latest remark. In 1922 ex-President Wilson, irate because the Demo-crat Reed had helped smother the Versailles Peace Treaty in the Senate had written a letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in which he said:". . . [Reed] is incapable of sustained allegiance to any person or any cause. . . has forfeited any claim to my confidence that he may ever have been supposed...
...important issues before the Senate there often develops "a little group of willful men," to confound the majority. The group changes with the issue. Last week it was composed of a few old-guard Republicans and one Demo-cratic buffoon. It was dangerous because the end of the session was near. By a 40%-hour filibuster it accomplished its purpose, damaged its members, killed an appropriation bill and a half dozen other important pieces of legislation...