Word: democrat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after 1929-he is a low-rate, big-production man who has boosted his system's domestic sales to the highest average in the country (1,000 k.w.h. per domestic consumer per year). By business standards he is a liberal. He was always a Democrat and voted for Roosevelt...
...Lewis' and Major George Berry's nationwide Non-Partisan League who thought that Labor in the State was politically ripe for a full-fledged party of its own. In its first appearance on the ballot, it justified that expectation by polling 300,000 votes for Roosevelt and Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. In its second appearance last week, it not only held the balance of power in New York's municipal election but helped elect Democrat Thomas F. Holling as mayor of Buffalo, cut a wider swath by supporting 13 successful candidates for the State Assembly (including sober...
...Girls' Industrial School at Beloit, Kans., is a gloomy looking "corrective" institution whose normal student body is composed of girls under 19 convicted of minor crimes. Last January, when Democrat Walter A. Huxman replaced Republican Alfred Landon as Governor of Kansas, the superintendent of Beloit, Republican Lulu Coyner was replaced by Democrat Blanche Peterson. Kansas' onetime (1933-35) Democratic Congresswoman Mrs. Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy recently paid a call on Mrs. Peterson. Result of her call was an uproar which last week made Beloit front page news throughout...
...York, Incumbent Florello H. LaGuardia was returned to office as mayor. Democrat, Jeremiah T. Mahoney conceded the election at 10 o'clock last night...
...back from the Paris Inter-parliamentary Union conference, the State's Senior Senator, square-headed Kenneth D. McKellar, strong Shelby County Democrat, heard about the plan by radio. Arrived in the U. S., he took the first train to Nashville, and in the smoky old Capitol addressed the Legislature with a stirring denunciation of the plan-which incidentally may enable Governor Browning to replace him in the U. S. Senate in 1940. Said he: "I've made mistakes but I do not think I deserve this stab in the back...