Word: democrat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member of the U. S. Tariff Commission. Mr. Brossard has served the Commission as an economist since 1923, and is represented as a high tariff advocate. Senator Smoot recommended him. This is President Coolidge's third appointment to the Commission-all three, including one Conservative Democrat, are high-tariff advocates. With Chairman Marvin and Mr. Glassie, who are of the same opinions, the high-tariff advocates control the Commission five to one. A year ago, a low-tariff group of Democrats and Progressive Republicans controlled the Commission...
...does not appear as a possible leader of his group. Senator Norris, therefore, was Mr. LaFollette's logical successor-by elimination if for no other reason. (Senator Wheeler, Mr. LaFollette's running mate last year was not generally considered a likely possibility, 1) because he is a Democrat and the LaFollette movement is largely a Republican off shoot; 2) because he has his hands full, at least temporarily, with the charges which the Department of Justice brought against...
...from the press when names†of half a dozen of those wishing to succeed to his seat in the Senate were mentioned, but as yet there seems no candidate to succeed Oscar W. Underwood-Underwood the conservative, Underwood who opposed Prohibition, Underwood who had little liking for the Democratic advances to the insurgent Republicans in the last Congress. Perhaps Alabama may elect a Senator as eloquently verbose as Heflin, or a fireeater like Harrison, or a damnation-downright man like Robinson, but it is not likely that they will discover another well-poised, equably disposed, able man such...
...Eugene Noble Foss. He was Congressman in 1910. He served as Governor of Massachusetts for three one-year terms (1911-13 inclusive). He has been by turns Republican, Democrat and Prohibitionist. In the present election, he was a Democrat-a self-styled "Coolidge-Democrat...
...Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, also a Democrat, attacked the system of giving Federal aid to the states in road building, etc., on a 50-50 basis (the U. S. giving a certain amount to spend in certain ways for certain purposes, provided the state will contribute an equal amount). He condemned it because it was a way for the Federal Government to gain control over state activities in a manner never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution. He attacked it also because it was unfair in its operation: in that Nevada, at one extreme, paying...