Word: democrat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich will not get too rich in a few more months and the wealth can then be shared, and the poor are being taken care of now, and I am personally appealing to the membership of the House to let us adjourn this session immediately." Mad applause from Democrats and Republicans alike. A day passed and "Bras" Deen offered a privileged resolution: "Resolved . . . That the two Houses of Congress shall adjourn on Tuesday, the 23rd day of July, 1935 . . . sine die." Up jumped Rules Chairman O'Connor, moved to table the resolution. Speaker Byrns called for those in favor...
...cannot sell property which it owns, even though in doing so it may enter into competition with other public or private owners of property." Politics? Last week the Press commented widely on the fact that, though the TVA decision represented the unanimous opinion of one Republican and two Democratic judges, in both the AAA and PWA decisions a lone Democrat dissented from two Republican colleagues. Such finger-pointing caused the judicial New York Times to observe: "It would be foolish to contend that no judge is ever swayed in his judicial work by old party affiliations. Yet it is safe...
Embarking at Annapolis on the Sequoia, the President was accompanied by Senator Robinson, Postmaster General Farley, Speaker Byrns, Vice President Garner. After an afternoon's fishing in the Bay they went ashore at Jefferson Islands, later to find almost every good Democrat in the District of Columbia on hand for an old fashioned political get-together...
...Cabinet deal transferred the Islands' Federal judgeship from the Interior Department to the Justice Department. Thereupon Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison persuaded Attorney General Cummings to give the job to T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson, a Mississippi Democrat who had lost his seat in the House by running, unsuccessfully, for the Senate. Negro-wise Judge Wilson soon roused the Islanders' fury against Governor Pearson to fever pitch. Looming up as a likely successor if Pearson could be dislodged, he made national news by pouncing on poor Quadroon Mclntosh. Acting as combined prosecutor, jury & judge, Judge T. Webber Wilson denounced...
...House, Alabama's hollow-cheeked, hard-fisted George Huddleston got a howling ovation when, pleading for "regulation" instead of "vengeance," he ripped into both combatants. "I deplore these outside influences," barked Democrat Huddleston. ". . . Before we had the first hearing on this bill the chairman of our committee [Texas' Sam Rayburn] radioed from one end of the country to the other telling the people how bad the utilities were and how much this kind of legislation was needed...