Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conservative Democrat, Banker Hanes is capable, hardworking, no pioneer. His family has not needed a pioneer since the late textile tycoon John W. Hanes Sr. piled up a fortune in the Hanes Hosiery Mills, invested most of it in R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). From him Son Hanes inherited about half a million dollars. But neither he nor any of his brothers coasted on their inheritance. All of them have made careers for themselves. Most notable is John W., who made a bigger fortune than his father, is now Under Secretary of the U. S. Treasury. Dr. Frederick...
Selected for the coming year are: Stephen E. Fitzgerald, 30, of the Haltimore Evening Sun; Carroll Kilpatrick, 25, of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser; Hodding Carter, 32, of The Delta Democrat Times, Greenville, Miss.; Edward A. Wyatt 4th, 29, of the Progress-index, Petersburg, Va.; Weldon B. James, 26, foreign correspondent of the United Press; William B. Diekinson, Jr., 30, Northwest news manager of the United Press, Minneapolis, Minn.; Volta W. Torrey, 34, news review editor of the Associated Press, New York City; William P. Vogel, Jr., 28, city hall reporter of The New York Herald Tribune; Oscar J. Buttodahl...
...other words, the true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and therefore his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind. In the coming test, pacifists have to prove their faith by resolutely refusing to have anything to do with war. . . . Such resistance is a matter for each person to decide for himself and under the guidance of the inner voice, if he recognizes its existence...
Even as a democrat, General Carpenter will have a wide command, for his 27,000 subordinate officers use 104 languages, work in 97 countries. Throughout the world the Army has an estimated 3,000,000 active members (240,000 in the U. S.), over $100,000,000 worth of property. Primarily a religious body, its evangelism marches hand in hand with its social work. An Army officer's commission is legal U. S. equivalent to a minister's ordination...
...Mayor of Philadelphia; of cerebral thrombosis and hypertension (high blood pressure); in Philadelphia. Hardworking, harddriving, hard-drinking, red-faced Sam Wilson had been an automobile manufacturer, Sunday blue-law spy, contractor, justice of the peace, crime investigator. Politically he was all things to all men. A violent Wilsonian Democrat (his oldest son-secretary is named Woodrow), in 1933 he was elected Philadelphia's Controller on a coalition ticket, next year supported Democrat George H. Earle for Governor of Pennsylvania, year after that was elected Mayor as a Republican, last year sought (and lost) the Democratic U. S. Senatorial nomination...