Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Hillyer Brand, 72, Georgia Congressman, second ranking Democrat on the House Banking & Currency Committee; after prolonged illness; in Athens...
Last January, however, a new Governor took charge of Arkansas. He is Judge Junius Marion Futrell, Democrat, who was born on an Arkansas farm, who walked daily over Arkansas' country roads to get his schooling. Once back in 1913 he, as president pro tem of the State Senate, was acting Governor of Arkansas for a few months and during that time made a record for himself: inaugurated the first State system of roads, pardoned a minimum number of jailbirds, helped out sufferers from the big flood that year. Since then he has been a judge, a member...
...gold I would defy the Government to come and get it." One person who took Senator Borah's advice last week was Colorado's Charles S. Thomas, 83, onetime (1899-1901) Governor, onetime (1913-21) Senator. To the U. S. District Attorney at Denver, this fiery old Democrat wrote: "I am the owner and possessor of $120 in gold which I have acquired in order to qualify myself for the penitentiary. . . . Being entitled to its retention, I shall not surrender it to the authorities, preferring to use my few remaining years in testing the extent to which...
...because the rein is so loose that the steed will never stop until he goes over the precipice, killing his rider. "I find I must desist. It is painful to disagree with the occupant of the White House whom I love and respect. But I am one Democrat who is going to vote against this inflation amendment. I may have regret but shall never make apologies for acting upon my own convictions and conscience." But no speech by Senator Glass or anyone else could stop the onward sweep of the President's inflation measure through the Senate. When Senator...
...sufficiently trusted by The People ("Who Think"). Perhaps, eloquent though he became on the stump, he was too mental for them, too synthetic. It was a simpler, earthier politician than T. R. who drove Hearst out of politics-Al Smith, with the astutely simple declaration. "He's no Democrat." On his Enchanted Hill with his seventies upon him, it is a question whether Hearst is still unreconciled to age. He has never let his newspapers keep a "Morgue" file on him. No man may call him by his first name...