Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grey, 69-year-old Democrat Michelson, who has seen four Republican publicity ghosts come & go since he took over in his shop in 1929, denied that the free press was in peril but conceded that newspapers "love to trifle with the idea." Recalling a time when corruption of the press was common, and looking forward to a day when all newspapers would live up to the code of ethics observed by the best, Mr. Michelson mused: "But even in that better day, if it ever arrives, I darkly suspect that whenever the occasion offers, the press will rise...
This last was the respect in which the Earle law provided a parallel to the new Federal Wages-&-Hours Bill. And it was the respect in which it failed to pass the court. Including H. Edgar Barnes. Earle's appointee and the only Democrat on the bench, the seven justices ruled as though they were paraphrasing the U. S. Supreme Court's NRA opinion: that a legislature cannot legally "abdicate, transfer or delegate" its powers to an administrator...
...Before a Senate subcommittee which last week considered the President's nomination of Judge Clark to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals (Philadelphia) appeared Democrat George S. Silzer, onetime Governor of New Jersey. No friend of Judge Clark, Mr. Silzer called him "unjudicious," "unfit to hold office," also "a smart damn fool." The committee approved, the Senate confirmed the appointment...
...happy day was November 3, 1936 for a ruddy, 71-year-old Manchester, N. H. retired shoe manufacturer named Arthur Byron Jenks. That day Republican Jenks. running for his first political office, thought that he had beaten Democrat Alphonse Roy for Congress in New Hampshire's ist District by 550 votes. Less happy were many succeeding days as the Jenks-Roy contest shuttled back and forth in a tantalizing series of recounts (TIME, Dec. 7. 1936. et seq.). One count came out 51,679-to-51,679, first tie in a Congressional race in no years. Another gave Contestee...
...sooner had Congressman Jenks spread his papers on his desk, than relentless Alphonse Roy carried his case to a House Committee on Elections, on which Democrats outnumber Republicans 6-to-3. They voted 6-to-3 in favor of seating Democrat Roy. Unsatisfied, the House gave the committee $5.000 for further hearings, the unprecedented task of interviewing all of Newton's voters to see whether there had been 458, as Mr. Jenks maintained, or 424, as claimed by Mr. Roy. After interviewing all they could find- nine had died-the committee reported that 458 votes had been cast...