Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November, eleven old governors were re-elected of whom only three (Vermont's Wilson, New Hampshire's Winant, Delaware's Buck) were Republicans.-Of the 24 new ones, 22 were Democrats, two Republicans. In Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming and West Virginia the governorship passed from a Republican to a Democrat. Only in Kansas did it pass from a Democrat to a Republican. North Dakota alone managed to change Republican governors without having a Democrat slip...
...governors inaugurated last week: New York-Four years as lieutenant governor had well trained Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman, Manhattan banker, for the country's second biggest executive job. Beside him at his simple inaugural stood the two men who had made him governor-President-elect Roosevelt and Alfred Emanuel Smith. The former talked about "Al" and the latter about "Frank's Forgotten Man." Governor Lehman advised the Legislature to prepare for beer at once by passing legislation to regulate and tax its local sale when authorized by Congress. Said he: "Approximately 25% of the entire working population...
Arizona. A political babe-in-arms who never before held public office is 70-year-old Governor Benjamin Baker Moeur of Tempe. During his campaign Democrat Moeur promised all his friends jobs. Last week he was in hot water because he found he had more friends than jobs. A physician, he employs his bedside manner in public. Newsmen consider him profane. Politicians consider him radical. The common people consider him their liberal savior who will somehow deal them reduced taxes...
Illinois. From Chicago to Springfield Democrat Henry Horner, bachelor, took his own male cook and valet. On the probate bench for 18 years he won wide acclaim for his efficient management of estates. Governor Horner plumes himself on having one of the world's largest private Lincoln libraries...
...islands' acquisition by the U. S. from Spain on payment of $20,000,000 under the Treaty of Paris (Dec. 10, 1898). William Jennings Bryan campaigned for the Presidency on that issue in 1900. William Howard Taft got his political start as the islands' first civil governor. Democrat Francis Burton Harrison proclaimed a "new era" when in 1913 he arrived to govern them. The Jones Act of 1916 declared: "It is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence...