Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salesman Christian was a Democrat. He had been one of the reading clerks at the Baltimore convention which nominated Woodrow Wilson in 1912. But he lived next door to Warren Harding. In fact one summer day in 1891, as a boy in his teens, he had been stationed at the door of the next house to admit guests as they arrived for the wedding of Warren Harding and Florence Kling. So to Washington in 1915 went Democrat Christian as Republican Senator Harding's secretary...
...President enjoyed an amiable visit from Brown Derby Democrat John J. Raskob, a Warm Springs benefactor who had gone South to hear Trustee Roosevelt accept a new administration building and dining hall for the sanitarium...
Seventh-you state that "Mr. Carter's generosity as a contributing Democrat is only equalled by his enthusiasm for the cause and, perhaps, by his ambition to hold office." It is the first time the writer has ever been aware that either a man's generosity or his loyalty to his Party should be subject to criticism or slander. As for my ambition to hold office-this in itself is ridiculous. I have never held public office and have repeatedly stated in the publication with which I am associated that I never expect to hold one. Therefore...
...Democrat. Mr. Eastman always admitted that he had no political affiliation, and almost everybody else admitted that the I. C. C. would be a far less potent body without Mr. Eastman. A hard-working bachelor and a patient, keen-nosed bear for grubbing out facts, he has long been known as the I. C. C.'s most brilliant dissenter. Though he is a frank advocate of Government control of the carriers, all railroadmen have a vast respect for Mr. Eastman's knowledge of their business. When President Hoover had misgivings about his reappointment, it was the railroadmen...
...Carter's generosity as a contributing Democrat is only equalled by his enthusiasm for the cause and, perhaps, by his ambition to hold office. He takes his politics with the same gusto that he plays bridge (he is an expert) and patronizes sport (he goes to all big fights, baseball, football, polo games in his airplane). At Houston in 1928 he threatened to beat up Rev. J. Frank Norris, a Protestant preacher acquitted of murder, who opposed the Presidential nomination of Catholic Al Smith. When Smith was nominated, Amon Carter's exuberance knew no bounds. In his exhilaration...