Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was bigger news in Oregon than it was in Washington. Because many an Oregon Democrat, including popular ex-Townsendite Willis Mahoney who almost beat Leader McNary in the 1936 elections, was already primping for Fred Steiwer's seat, Democratic Governor Charles H. Martin found the prospect of picking one for an eleven-month recess appointment highly perplexing. The Governor had to step carefully since he is up for re-election himself this year, on the outs with Oregon's left-wing Democracy which has never forgotten that he registered Republican before he retired from the Army...
Representative Matthew Anthony Dunn of Pennsylvania is the only blind man in the 75th U. S. Congress.* A onetime Pittsburgh newsdealer who says that he "would rather be a radical than a rubber stamp," curly-headed Democrat Dunn often rises, black glasses blazing, to harangue his collagues, who rarely listen to him, on such subjects as patent pools, monopoly, or the insufficiency of Relief expenditures. Before the holiday adjournment, Representative Dunn ascended the speaker's rostrum, caroled several stanzas of Oh Come, All Ye Faithful and played his harmonica to an all but empty house...
Fiorello LaGuardia used to run for Congress on the Republican ticket. He was originally elected mayor of New York City on a Fusion ticket, was re-elected with the additional aid of the American Labor Party, and in philosophy is strictly New Deal Democrat. Last week the mayor of New York City was touring the Midwest talking about the Farm Problem. Since this has nothing to do with running New York City, he was questioned in Chicago about Presidential ambitions for 1940. Said the fast-witted little Mayor...
...Heinz Warneke-will pick a new design from those submitted by artists. But the New Deal has already picked the subject of the winning design. It must bear a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the obverse, of his home. Monticello, on the reverse. Struck by the coincidence that Democrat Jefferson will be commemorated...
...Ickes' office," snorted Joe Bailey, "but I've never seen it and I wouldn't go so far as to say that Mr. Ickes takes a bath." With an angry gesture he raised his arm and wham, flung the book to the floor. In a twinkling, Oklahoma Democrat Elmer Thomas scrambled over to pick it up, lay it gently on a desk. At this point tobacco-chewing Cotton Ed Smith, who had no doubt been restrained by his colleagues from giving his standard anti-lynching argument on behalf of Southern womanhood, relieved his feelings by grabbing America's 60 Families...