Word: democrat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delegate at Large. The only active negotiator the U. S. had on the European disarmament front last week was Norman Hezekiah Davis, a grey-haired, drawling Tennessee Democrat. On an allowance of $6 per day from his Government (and spending five times that much out of his own pocket), Mr. Davis was covering more ground more effectively than a full-fledged delegation of plenipotentiaries. A diplomat who had earned his spurs under Woodrow Wilson, he was picked by President Hoover as a U. S. delegate to the League of Nations' General Disarmament Conference which opened last February at Geneva...
...olfe, onetime auditor of Joseph Pulitzer's estate, and Murray Olf, stock promoter. They were charged with mulcting investors in Southern Cities Supply Corp. of $1,700,000. An unexpected witness against them in Federal Court was Illinois' white-maned Representative Henry Thomas Rainey, Democratic floor leader of the House. Democrat Rainey's story...
...from the wings of European diplomacy into Geneva's spotlight last week strolled that drawling Democrat from Tennessee, Norman H. Davis. A fairly large section of the European Press predicts that Mr. Davis is the next U. S. Secretary of State. Last week, however, he took the spotlight to speak for the man who made his comeback possible, Herbert Hoover...
Four days after Christmas last year President Hoover plucked Mr. Davis from his office at No. 48 Wall Street, sent him to Geneva as one of the two U. S. Democratic delegates to La Conference pour la Limitation et pour la Reduction des Armaments. The Conference has proved disappointing, but not Democrat Davis. He has become indispensable to the President, golfing ably with Sir John Simon in England, slipping over to Paris for a quiet aperitif with Edouard Herriot, journeying to Rome for a naval parley with Benito Mussolini. Precisely because the U.S. Press has not yet caught up with...
Germans were reminded by a majority of their Press that Democrat Roosevelt is of the same party as President Wilson, whom Germans blame for the Polish Corridor and other "infamies" of the Treaty of Versailles...