Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question that has plagued every good Republican and every anti-Tammany man for months & months. Their only chance. they all knew, lay in fusion. Republican Charles Seymour Whitman, New York State's onetime Governor, backed Major General John F. O'Ryan, a political non-entity but a Democrat. Tammany's ablest foe, Democrat Samuel Seabury who drove one Tammany mayor into voluntary exile, would have none of General O'Ryan. Last week after weeks of bickering the Fusionists finally agreed on a candidate for the nation's No. 3 elective office. No neophyte in Manhattan...
Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia's junior U. S. Senator, was not a candidate for his old job as Governor of the State in last week's Democratic primary. Nevertheless he found himself the major issue in a three-cornered campaign for that office. The candidates were: Norfolk's Joseph T. Deal, a onetime Representative, Louisa's W. Worth Smith Jr., a State Senator, and Tazewell's George Campbell Peery. Because Democrat Peery was favored by Senator Byrd, Messrs. Deal and Smith centred their fire on the "Byrd machine," lambasted the Senator's "boss rule...
...corner of the State, George Peery plowed, clerked in a store, taught school, studied law under John William Davis at Washington & Lee. The 9th Congressional District in which he lived had been under the Republican thumb of the Slemps, Father Campbell and Son Bascom, for 25 years. In 1922 Democrat Peery defeated the Slemp candidate, went to the House, stayed there six years. A modest, substantial citizen, married and the father of three, he made a cautious, sedate gubernatorial campaign, recommended Repeal of the 18th Amendment, ignored the noisy attacks of his opponents. Said he: "I am more accustomed...
...Administrator Johnson the contradiction which, they insisted, lay between the foregoing clauses and stood" in the way of adoption of a code by newspapers. The committeemen. representing the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, were Howard Davis, plump manager of the New York Herald Tribune, Amon Giles Carter, potent Texas Democrat and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the Richmond News-Leader, Charles R. Butler, president of the Inland Daily Press Association...
Between 1923 and 1929, 269 indictments were returned, from which only 27 convictions were obtained. In 1929 Republican John Swanson succeeded "Big Bill" Thompson's Robert Crowe as State's Attorney. He talked loudly about law & order but failed dismally to check industrial violence. Last November Democrat Thomas Courtney, a young two-fisted "reformer," beat State's Attorney Swanson for his job by a thumping majority. The Cook County Democratic machine was not overjoyed at its own man's victory; it feared he would "raise hell with the status quo." That was precisely what...