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Cord's hero was Joe McMillin's brother, Congressman Benton McMillin, a rock of old-line Democracy, a low-tariff man, an advocate of a high income tax law on those millionaires back East. In Bent's buggy at campaign time, young Hull absorbed demo cratic doctrine. It was Bent McMillin who later drafted the first U. S. income tax law, killed by the Supreme Court; and it was Cordell Hull, many years later, who drafted the income tax law (1913) that stands today...
...Italian people therefore will have the necessary bread to live, but even if it had been lacking, we should never-I say, never-have been compelled to seek any aid whatsoever from those so-called great demo-plutocracies. . . . Comrade mechanics, start the motor. Comrade farmers, the harvest begins," proclaimed Il Duce. Stepping down from his perch, he pitched in with the threshers, for an hour jerked open stacks of wheat and tossed them into the hopper. He repeated his performance later in Pontinia, Littoria and Sabaudia, three other towns built in the Pontine area (TIME...
...prancing mob swarmed around the Democratic National Convention Hall in Philadelphia broadcasting these sentiments. The Party from Franklin Roosevelt down was engaging in a concerted move to sway Governor Herbert Lehman of New York from his intention of retiring, to run again for Governor in order to strengthen the Demo-cratic ticket in New York. The forced draft succeeded after Franklin Roosevelt had sent his old friend Herbert a personal letter urging him to make the race...
...fell under the spell of an errant Philadelphia socialite, William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia's Record. These gentlemen could hardly help noticing Convert Earle since he plunked down...
...asking. In that $15,000-per-year job he would be sure of 15 more years in Washington, free from all shift of political fortune. But Mississippians who sent Pat Harrison to support a Democratic President of 1918 may yet be told that a Demo-cratic President of 1936 cannot do without...