Word: democrat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Balance of Power. Angina pectoris (heart disease), from which he had long suffered (last year he had an attack in the Capitol barbershop), carried off Senator Andrieus Aristieus Jones, New Mexico Democrat. The Senate expressed profound regret in a resolution. Vice President Dawes detailed ten Senators to attend the funeral in Las Vegas...
...newly-elected alderman in the Flushing district of Queens took over Lawyer Klein's evidence and charges and passed them up to Albany, asking Governor Smith to suspend and investigate the entire Connolly regime. Since President Connolly is a Democrat, the Republican Legislature of New York yearned to conduct this inquiry. In Manhattan, Mayor James J. Walker yearned to conduct the inquiry because President Connolly had opposed Mayor Walker's election, being a political brother of famed John F. Hylan, Mayor Walker's old-style predecessor...
...Cabinet.-Republican Leader Curtis of Kansas. To recognize Soviet Russia.-Republican Borah, chairman of Foreign Relations. To reduce the limit within which conspiracies must be prosecuted, from six years to three;* and to empower the President to give a court witness immunity by granting a pardon in advance.-Democrat Walsh of Montana. The Senate passed both Walsh bills promptly, without comment. To investigate public utility corporations, their profits & policies.-Democrat Walsh of Montana. To prevent distributors leasing cinema films in blocks of which exhibitors must take all or none.-Republican Brookhart of Iowa...
...prevent hypocrisy"-a modification of the McNary-Haugen farm-relief plan, substituting for that plan's equalization fee an exchange of export debentures for negotiable customs certificates which would permit farmers to import dutiable merchandise duty-free.-Democrat Caraway of Arkansas...
...front of the million-dollar state capitol at Frankfort, Kentucky changed governors midstream. Out went Governor William J. Fields, Democrat. In came Governor Flem D. Sampson, Republican. So freakish had been Kentucky's political currents that Republican Governor Sampson entered office with a Democratic Lieutenant Governor (James Breathitt Jr.) and a departmental staff which is Democratic to a man. Soon a Democratic legislature will convene. Surrounded by Democratic Philistines, Governor Sampson was not, however, shorn by a Democratic Delilah. Hampered in obtaining legislation, he can still veto legislation. Governor Sampson was elected because Governor Fields wanted to smash...