Word: democrat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent of my limited knowledge no attempt has ever been made to change the names of Wilson Dam, Cleveland Forest or Jefferson City. Democratic Washington may designate this great project by the misnomer "Boulder,'1 but to me, and I think many another Democrat, it shall continue to be known as Hoover...
...with the knowledge that he had been elected Governor of Nebraska a third time. After his lungs cleared, heart trouble kept "Brother Charley" on his back until last week. In March died Robert Beecher Howell, Nebraska's Republican Senator, but Governor Bryan was too ill to appoint a Democratic successor; the State had to get along month after month with George William Norris as its lone Senator. Ambitious to sit in the Senate, "Brother Charley" pondered ways & means of appointing himself to the vacancy. His doctors told him he would never reach Washington alive, and the Senate would...
...Democrat Thompson becomes the Senate's oldster, taking that distinction from Wyoming's Kendrick by four years. His age. however, was his chief recommendation for office in the Governor's eyes. His Washington service will be brief (the term expires 1935) and quiet. "Brother Charley" has ample assurances that he will step aside next year for a Bryan-for-Senator campaign...
Perhaps the President had in mind some particularly deserving mainland Democrat whom he wished to put into a particularly soft berth. But the only Democrat thus mentioned last week was Benjamin Barr Lindsey, disbarred juvenile court judge of Denver and few party leaders thought he rated the appointment...
...policy. (On the day when its front page "bared" the "Morgan deals." the New York Evening Journal's editorial page carried a Brisbanal sermon on Brain v. Brawn.) But presently Publisher Hearst crashed out with a signed editorial for the front pages of his morning papers. Theme (from Democrat Raskob's reply to Morgan's invitation to buy stock on the "inside") : "I hope I will be able to reciprocate...