Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years ago Mayor LaGuardia won election in a three-cornered race against a Tammany and a "Recovery" (New Deal Democratic) opponent. In so doing he polled about 800,000 votes to 1,200,000 by his rivals combined. Had Dr. Copeland won the Republican primary, LaGuardia running under some other label would again have had the advantage of a three-cornered race. Instead Tammany, beaten in the primaries, announced that it would support Democrat Jerry Mahoney, once more consolidating the Democratic vote. Judge Mahoney being a New Dealer, and having won Jewish sympathy two years ago by standing...
...Walker had to meet competition from the feasting eyes of England, Spain, the U. S., the more glittering eye of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who controlled the lucrative transit route across Nicaragua. The deal by which Walker evaded U. S. neutrality laws provided that the Nicaraguan "Democrats" .invite him to send in "colonists." By the time the "Democrat" leaders realized what Walker was up to, it was too late to regret having asked him in. On the military side, Walker was unbeatable. Augmented by a steady flow of recruits from the U. S. (who received free transportation on Vanderbilt boats), he soon...
Having, to his surprise, won the nomination, Candidate Jenks waged an earnest campaign. When the ballots were counted, 550 more were tallied for him than for his Democratic opponent, Alphonse Roy (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). Democrat Roy demanded a recount. The recount showed the first Congressional tie in 110 years-51,679 to 51,679. New Hampshire's Secretary of State Enoch D. Fuller, who had been Candidate Jenks's opponent in the Republican primaries, suggested a recount. This gave the election to Democrat Roy by 17 votes. Next Candidate Jenks demanded a recount of the recount...
Soon after Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee started its investigation of death and terror in Harlan County, Ky., Irene Juno, "the flying reporter," made a flying trip to that coal mining district, wrote a gushing account of what she saw for the National Voting Democrat under the title "The Happy Side of Harlan...
...electrician, detective, a knockabout journalist from Buffalo to Seattle. His hobbies include "spinning members of the W. C. T. U. and D. A. R. in revolving doors," giving fellow newshawks such Indian-style nicknames as Captain-in-Case-of-War Perkins. He is "a Protestant in politics and a Democrat in religion," lives in Hamburg, N. Y., is descended from a onetime heavyweight champion of the Erie Canal...