Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt was, however, always a Democrat and a professional politician. George Earle for the first 41 years of his life was a Republican among Republicans, a young socialite who loved polo ponies and show dogs, dinner parties and fine wines. He had inherited a sugar fortune and married Huberta Potter, a Kentucky belle. Like Saint Paul crossing the plain of Damascus, George Earle in 1932, crossing the valley of Depression, suddenly saw a great light. He promptly hit the sawdust trail to political redemption...
...member since its foundation eight years ago, to ask whether he would not like to go down there for a weekend of political conferences as he has before (TIME, July 22, 1935 et ante). And if so, what Party leaders would he like invited? The President beamed. Every Democrat in Congress is a Party leader, let all (407) be invited, including the nine male members of the Cabinet. That would be a big party, but they could manage it by holding a three-day week end. There are only 21 beds including the President's in the clubhouse...
...sent in replies. Analysis of some of the political answers shows out of a total of 390 men who voted in 1928 only 34 approving of Smith. In 1932, 167 out of 551 were for Roosevelt while four years later 225 out of 552 answered yes on the Democrat...
...State committeeman. and in 1910 made his first bid for Bosshood. He ran Charles A. Goodwin of Hartford for Governor against Everett J. Lake, then Lieutenant-Governor. Goodwin won the nomination but "J. Henry" had split the Party, and for the first time in 20 years a Democrat was elected. Governor Simeon E. Baldwin. "J. Henry" came back quickly. He elected George P. McLean to the U. S. Senate in 1911 and the next year became State chairman. The Roosevelt-Taft split checked him momentarily, but he reorganized his machine Statewide, filled its treasury and from 1915 to the dawn...
...Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Democrat Leo V. Tumelty of Philadelphia introduced a resolution to "remove or rip the statue of Boies Penrose from the lawn of the Capitol and offer it to either Maine or Vermont." The memorial to Pennsylvania's late Republican Boss, declared he, "appears to be sneering...