Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That year Young Jim's training for the succession began in earnest. Beginning to tire of 500 conferences per day, Big Boss Tom kept his nephew at his elbow, left him holding the reins when he went off vacationing. Running against the son of another famed Democrat, Bennett Champ Clark, Young Jim was elected president of Missouri's Young Democrats.* The heir-apparent got his first big test last June when, at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Uncle Tom fell seriously ill of an intestinal ailment, was hospitalized. Young Jim, a platform committeeman at the Convention, went...
...Hampshire last month Arthur B. Jenks, Republican, and Alphonse Roy, Democrat, ran a close race for the seat of Representative William Nathaniel Rogers, Democrat, retired. Republican Jenks was declared winner by 550 votes. Democrat Roy appealed for a recount. Last week New Hampshire's Secretary of State Enoch D. Fuller announced the result: Jenks 51,679 votes, Roy 51,679. He suggested the rivals ask the State Ballot Law Commission to review the recount. If the Ballot Board does not change it, incoming Governor Francis P. Murphy will probably have to call a special reelection...
Sirs: You would please every loyal Democrat if you make James A. Farley your Man of this Year. Only through his statesmanship was the unprecedented Roosevelt victory at the polls in November made possible. Jim Farley showed the way and the Nation followed. It was Jim Farley who discovered Roosevelt in the first place...
...Michigan fortnight ago voters roundly trounced Republican Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald by electing Democrat Frank Murphy in his stead. In the contest to succeed James Couzens in the U. S. Senate, the voters picked Democratic Representative Prentiss M. Brown. Senator Couzens having died during the campaign, the Republicans had one consolation prize. Before Governor Fitzgerald left office he could bestow an honor and an honorarium on some loyal Republican by appointing him to fill out Senator Couzens' unfinished term. This week Mr. Fitzgerald made his choice. Said he: "The high office of United States Senator is nothing...
...saying he named Democrat Prentiss M. Brown to begin his Senate term a month and a half ahead of time. Reason: Mr. Brown would thereby gain seniority rights over other Senators who take office in January, thus adding to '"his value as a servant of the State...