Word: democrat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Utah's Republican Smoot is no higher protectionist than he. He ardently advocates Philippine independence to put that possession's sugar crop outside the tariff wall. He voted for coal, oil and copper tariffs in the 1932 Revenue Act. Because of his passion for Republican tariffs most Democratic leaders eye him with political distrust. To the press gallery he is a Democrat in name only and his vote can generally be anticipated. His proudest political feat was inducing Republicans to agree to legislation naming a new Washington street after his State...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a friendless high-tariff Democrat who has long occupied himself with legislative trifles; a conservative, not over-diligent Senator whose only influence upon national matters is his own vote. His term expires March...
California. Either lean, leathery William Gibbs McAdoo or chubby, boyish Tallant Tubbs will be California's next Senator. Democrat McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury and son-in-law, beat Justus Wardell, longtime friend of Governor Roosevelt, by a 2-to-1 vote for the nomination. Two irreconcilable supporters of Alfred Emanuel Smith were also-rans. To Nominee McAdoo, who gave him his presidential nomination at the Chicago convention, Governor Roosevelt wired: "Congratulations and confident good wishes for a clean Democratic sweep this fall." Slightly less than half the State's 1,027,000 registered...
...Sept. 15 was announced as the date of the next White House conference on Depression relief. President Hoover will address the National Citizens Committee of the Welfare & Relief Mobilization of 1932, chairmanned by Democrat Newton Diehl Baker, organized to raise funds locally for local relief. Last week the White House was heartened by a statement by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor: 11,400,000 jobless for August which, for once, showed no increase over the month before. Though progressive unemployment might be checked, Mr. Green warned that next winter will be one of "unthinkable suffering...
Candidate Lehman has the tacit support of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Wall Street has a kindly feeling toward him because his family controls the old banking firm of Lehman Bros. Republicans admit that he would be the hardest Democrat to beat...