Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contrary to expectation, the right of Democrat Dr. Rudolph G. Tenerowicz of Hamtramck, Mich., onetime convict (TIME, Nov. 28, et ante) to a seat was not challenged. No seat was challenged...
...Probable revolts against the Administration will be led by Senators Harrison on Taxation, Smith on Farm Relief, Byrd on Reorganization, Vandenberg on Social Security revision, Hatch on politics-in-Relief. A fight, hot and early, was promised over a bill which Democrat King of Utah filed, calling for the dissolution of WPA in 90 days and the return of Relief, still federally financed, to the States. Leaders of a movement to continue WPA but earmark its appropriations in Congress (contrary to President Roosevelt's wish), will be South Carolina's Byrnes and Montana's Murray, hitherto Administration...
Under the late great Robert Marion La Follette, his sons and followers, Wisconsin had 40 years of "new deal." There were interruptions, the latest when the Governorship was held by an old-line Republican (1928-30) and by a Democrat (1932-34). In 1934, however, Philip Fox La Follette, youngest of the sons, came back strong. Last fall Phil La Follette, running for his fourth term as Governor, was beginning to think he might extend Wisconsin's new deal over the whole nation, when he ran smack into a popular revulsion against new-dealing. Like more than a third...
...about the C. I. O. and the A. F. L.?" snapped back Senator Connally, Democrat from Texas...
...Ickes, a onetime Bull Mooser, was to have run, of course, as a New Deal Democrat. His back-out left the field to Mayor Edward J. Kelly and ambitious State's Attorney Tom Courtney. Mayor Kelly visited Washington to see what his chances were for Jim Farley's support...