Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return to his Ohio automobile business. Last week as Mr. Willys' successor at Warsaw the President appointed the best-mannered, best-dressed man in the U. S. diplomatic corps-Ferdinand Lammot Belin, 51, of Scranton, Pa. Ambassador Belin is a brother of Alice Belin du Pont, wife of Democrat Pierre Samuel du Pont. His diplomatic service began as a private secretary at the Peking Legation in 1917. Later he served at Constantinople and Paris. Recalled from the London Embassy in 1930 he was made chief of the State Department's Division of International Conferences & Protocol, with which went...
...desperately for the President-but they did not seem enough to blast loose the rock of discontent sunk deep in the electorate at large. The last week of the Republican campaign was much like the first-only hotter. Every member of the Cabinet except Attorney General Mitchell (a nominal Democrat) had done his bit and more for the President. At Dayton Secretary of State Stimson proclaimed President Hoover "a real fighting Quaker, thoroughly aroused, smashing down his opponents' positions one by one with irresistible logic." Secretary of the Treasury Mills had worn his voice down to a hoarse croak...
Traveling west through Massachusetts from Boston, Al Smith was hailed like a conquering hero. At every stop huge crowds clustered about his car. In them was to be seen many a Catholic priest. Democrat Smith waved his brown derby but resolutely refused to speak or start handshaking. At Worcester one ardent friend snatched a cigar butt out of his hand, carried it off amid much scuffling as a souvenir...
Aboard the private car Washington Democrat Smith set out for New England and his "very beloved friends of Massachusetts." The journey was one long popular reception through the rain. At Providence Mr. Smith got off for a brief indoor address (his doctors forbid him to speak outdoors...
Through the torchlit streets of Providence, R. I. one night last week parading G. O. Partisans carried placards with such slogans, mocking Theodore Francis Green, 65, lawyer, banker, scholar, Fellow of Brown University and Democratic nominee for Governor. When Mr. Green was picked to oppose Governor Norman Stanley Case for reelection, Republicans softly whispered that he was effeminate. Democrat Green's retort took the form of a full-page advertisement in the rotogravure section of the dignified Providence Journal. In a dozen different poses he was depicted as the "All-round Man"-lawyer, statesman, soldier, traveler, tennis player, public...