Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only three years ago "Jim" Curley was a sadly neglected Democrat. In spite of having been for Roosevelt long before Chicago, in spite of making friends with the President's ambitious son James, he had not been rewarded with the job he coveted, Ambassador to Italy. All he had been offered was Minister to Poland, at which he stuck up his Irish nose. In fact the New Deal showed distinct signs of coolness toward the three-times Mayor of Boston. Therefore Mr. Curley decided to show them. In 1934 he campaigned his way into the governorship, and promptly took...
...reporter for the Boston Transcript, went to City Hall where he heard the Mayor rip into "that old son-of-a-gun," Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Last week the same youngster, grandson of the late great Senator from Massachusetts, had just polled 100,000 more votes than Democrat Curley to win the Republican nomination for the same Senate seat...
...poetry who has sounded every depth and shoal of human feeling, William Shakespeare, unquestionably anticipated this institution when he penned the line which reads 'How far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.' " After reviewing the history of Harvard, Democrat Curley got down to more familiar ground. Boomed he, cocking his head pertly at President Roosevelt: "A half century ago, upon the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Harvard University, the institution was honored by the presence of . . . President Grover Cleveland. . . . Today Harvard University is honored...
There were no bank runs in Allentown next business day, but last week the Republican National Committee received a letter for Nominee Knox from Pennsylvania's Secretary of Banking Luther A. Harr. After citing the State's law against financial slander, Secretary Harr, a Democrat in a Democratic State Administration, declared: "Your statement is so sweeping as to include every bank and savings institution in the State, but I will not stand on technicalities. If you have information that one bank or savings institution in this State is unsafe, I am willing to accept that as sufficient justification...
Campaigning with Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle in Allen- town, Democrat Jack Dempsey busily scribbled autographs, asked one eager moppet: "And don't you want the Governor's signature too?" Retorted the moppet: "Naw, I only want yours...