Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sighted: more work for President Hoover's man-about-Europe, Democrat Norman Hezekiah Davis (TIME...
...free to get squared away in the White House and his new job. But so large is his "new deal," so insistent is the popular pressure to transform it into legislation, so dawdling is every "lame duck" session and so determined is President Hoover to use his veto on Democratic ideas with which he disagrees that a special session next April is widely viewed as a certainty. 73rd Speakership- Such a prospect gives added importance to the present House session where already a heated Democratic campaign is in progress for the Speakership of the 73rd Congress. The wise eyes...
...better pensions, dipped into the pork barrel for public buildings, joined log-rolling expeditions for local waterway developments. He denounced Theodore Roosevelt for the Panama "grab," flayed him as a "mob leader." Loud and tactless, he was set down and snubbed as a radical ranter by conservative Republicans and Democrats alike. Tariff Fire- In 1908 Representative Rainey struck fire from the Republican tariff. A traditional low-tariff Democrat, he charged that U. S. manufacturers, protected by the tariff, were selling watches cheaper abroad than in the U. S. To prove his point he produced from his large person, like...
Premier Thorvald Stauning, a strapping Social Democrat with a beard as big as Santa Claus's has been asking and fighting for iron control of Danish imports by the State. Last week both houses of the Danish Parliament gave Premier Stauning what he wanted as an early Christmas present...
...Minutes. The Senate's first-day session lasted 19 minutes. Lame ducks were loudly joshed back & forth across the aisle. No business was done. From Denver, Democrat Walter Walker flew to Washington, was sworn in as Colorado's Senator pending the arrival of the official election certificate of Republican Karl Schuyler. Two other new Senators: North Carolina's Robert Reynolds and Washington's Elyot Grammer. Absent was Pennsylvania's Senator Davis, whose right to sit has been questioned since his indictment in connection with the Moose lottery (TIME, Aug. 29; Oct. 10). His wife explained...