Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrat Reed has called Republican Hyde "a steam whistle on a fertilizer factory...
...made so by the indifference of the students. It is very disheartening to hear people announce that they will support Hoover "because it is a bad plan 'to swap horses in the middle of the stream", or that they will vote for Roosevelt "because he is a Democrat and we need a change", or that Thomas is to receive their support "because neither of the other men is any good anyway". Another typical student attitude is that politics are dishonest and are no place for an honest man. Yet they never make an effort to ascertain the merits...
Bacon v. Whitney. Mrs. John Harlan Amen, daughter of Grover Cleveland, made a speech to help Democrat Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney in the 1st New York Congressional District. Nominee Whitney's grandfather served in Mrs. Amen's father's Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. Meanwhile Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, wife of the Republican incumbent, campaigned for her husband among Long Island Italians in their own language...
McNutt v. Springer. At Logansport, Ind. Raymond S. Springer, campaigning as Republican nominee for Governor against Democrat Paul Vories McNutt, onetime (1928-29) national commander of the American Legion, mounted a circus elephant, joined a G. O. Parade. Going up an incline the beast stumbled to its knees. Nominee Springer pitched forward, saved himself from a bad fall by grabbing the elephant's ears...
Tubbs v. McAdoo v. Shuler. In California Rev. Robert Pierce ("Bob") Shuler, Prohibition nominee for the Senate against Republican Tallant Tubbs and Democrat William Gibbs McAdoo bought three sacks of onions for 90? in San Joaquin Valley. Said he to the onion farmer: "I'm going to take these sacks of onions to Washington, eat 'em every day and blow my breath all over the Senators until they pass laws to allow the growers to make money." Nominee McAdoo's theme song: "Send me to Washington. I'll guarantee I won't need someone...