Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Whitman was a democrat everybody knows. But nobody has shown as clearly as Mr. Arvin what Whitman's democracy meant: stump speeches for the luckless Martin Van Buren, support for Tyler the Whig when Tyler took up Andrew Jackson's old fight against the United States Bank, disgust with party politics during the Democratic sellout before the Civil War, and always "strong images of a democratic and equal life-of 'ordinary' men and women working, building, making things, growing things, sailing ships, fighting battles, eating and drinking, singing, marching." Whitman was no Utopian socialist, says...
...Mexico has no Senate election this year, and the State sends only one Representative (Democrat John J. Dempsey of Santa Fe) to the House. Besides having his secretary and members of his family indicted, Mr. Chavez had other reason for feeling uncomfortable along with his ally, Mr. Dempsey. Last year they got Fred Healy, now indicted, appointed WPAdministrator in place of Lee Rowland, a friend of their political opponent, Governor Clyde Tingley. The warm-blooded Senator warned people not to condemn his friends and relatives before they had their day in court; meantime, his son-in-law took the "advisable...
...crowd that brought the cheering total to at least 100,000. Franklin Roosevelt's emissary thereupon inserted into his prepared speech a hearty Roosevelt endorsement of Candidate Ely, predicted his election and added: "I know that the President will be thrilled when I give him that report." Opposing Democrat Ely is able, hulking, frizz-haired William Warren Barbour, a Republican who very nearly fits the "liberal" definition of Franklin Roosevelt and who was beaten out of his Senate seat in 1936 by William H. Smathers. Until Boss Hague and Boss Roosevelt joined forces, it had looked unlikely that Democrat...
Apparent losers in any combination were Democratic Candidate Thomas Gallagher (campaigning for $50 pensions for Minnesotans over 60) and Democrat Franklin Roosevelt. The President failed to accommodate Elmer Benson, a vociferous New Dealer, by scratching the Democratic slate in favor of Farmer-Labor as he did in 1936. With no similar New Deal deal in sight last week, Twin Cities betting odds, hitherto favoring the well-oiled Benson machine 10-to-9, dropped to even money...
Such was the language which, in addition to the titanic shouts of Rev. Reginald ("Magnavox") Naugle, was echoing through Pennsylvania last week, hurled by the major candidates: Democrat George H. Earle and Republican James J. Davis for Senator, Democrat Charles Alvin Jones and Republican Arthur H. James for Governor. At stake in Pennsylvania were not only 34 House seats, a Senatorship and the entire State regime, but perhaps a balance of power in the 1940 Electoral College...