Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coolidge referred briefly to his past service,"When I was in Washington. . . ."He called the Republican party "the most efficient instrument for sound popular government ever entrusted with the guidance of a great nation." He deprecated the idea of Change for Change's sake. He referred to Democrat Grover Cleveland as "a wise statesman." Excerpts...
...Springfield, Ill. A local plan that Democrat Roosevelt speak at Lincoln's tombset Republicans to screaming "Sacrilege!" Later it was explained that Governor Roosevelt simply wanted to visit this Republican shrine which he had never seen, had not the slightest idea of using it as a political stump. His second major address was scheduled for St. Louis that evening...
...poverty." For two years President Hoover minimized Federal deficits, missed his guess as to their total size by about four billion dollars. Public distrust of Treasury policy was at the root of last winter's panic. The President was two years late getting around to budget balancing. Declared Democrat Garner...
...joke about my being a bouncer. There's nothing to bounce around here except pieces of meat. I'm manager here. . . . Can't tell you my salary but it's a lot more than $15 weekly. Why that wouldn't buy cigars." Democrat Melvin Alvah Traylor, crinkle-eyed president of Chicago's First National Bank, sometimes mentioned for the Treasury portfolio if Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected, by mistake received an invitation to lunch and hear Secretary of the Treasury Mills orate for President Hoover. Asked to return the invitation, Banker Traylor smiled, declined...
...Alignment Shifts Republican to Socialist 154 Democrat to Republican 112 Republican to Democrat 121 Democrat to Socialist 88 Socialist to Republican...