Word: democratic
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Philadelphia. Having been a Republican in 1905, a Wilson Democrat in 1912 and 1916, a Republican officeholder in 1927, a successful candidate for Democratic city controller in 1933 and for Republican mayor in 1935, Philadelphia's boisterous Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was last week plunking his oratorical hardest for the Democratic slate in a city election for four job-dispensing offices-controller, treasurer, coroner, register of wills -for all of which the Democrats were conceded a better-than-even chance. Mayor Wilson had most fun with two rich but politically unsophisticated socialites who undertook to revive Philadelphia...
...Guardia's explosive wrath sixty-four hirelings of no value to the community only in the last week. As for finances, the city's credit is at a higher level than at any time in a generation. The housing and other public projects to which the benevolent Democrat objects take the form of a series of new dwellings for the working population, as fine and practical examples of governmental paternalism as we have in the country, a number of public parks and playgrounds under the direction of Robert Moses, the Tri-Borough Bridge, new docks for the ocean liners...
...Another Democrat seeking office is William J. Foley, whom Mr. Curley referred to as "the Dumb Dora of Pemberton Square," shortly after making him District Attorney. Since that time Boston has sunk steadily into the mire of corruption until now the town's law-breakers are not infrequently recruited from the police department. And if Foley is tarred with the same brush as his crst-while master, so is the Third Democrat, Maurice J. Tobin, whose election to the School Board Mr. Curley made possible. During Mr. Tobin's term of office one of the gravest scandals in the history...
...expressed hearty "disapproval of Franklin Roosevelt's early ideas on power distribution, he nonetheless became Franklin Roosevelt's firm friend, was appointed by him two years ago to the Securities & Exchange Commission. Last week Republican Ross resigned from the SEC to take a bigger job offered by Democrat Roosevelt-the administration of the Federal Government's big Bonneville hydroelectric project in Oregon...
...Savings Bank and therefore on the unit banker side. Elected second vice president last week was Robert March Hanes, president of Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. A 47-year-old graduate of the University of North Carolina, he comes of a socially prominent family, is a Democrat and a Methodist, saw active service in the War. He was chosen for his important heirship-apparent largely because he is a fine example of the important, but independent, banker...