Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long. Since then the closest approach to the earthy, colorful antics and harangues of a Roosevelt-hating Democrat with which Louisiana's Senator used to pack the galleries and make national headlines have been the juvenilities of West Virginia's Rush D. Holt. Next week-one day before the anniversary of Long's death-Georgians will have a chance to supply the nation with a Senate successor who comes considerably closer to matching the talents and temperament of the late Kingfish. To oust Senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr., 38, from his comfortable seat in the Democratic primary...
...offended his official and masculine pride by adjudging him and his staff incompetent to administer Georgia's relief, putting a female Federal agent in control. But the Governor also fancies himself a political philosopher and fiercely hates the New Deal's expensive paternalism. Proclaiming himself a Jeffersonian Democrat, he believes in a free hand for business, the least and cheapest government possible...
...unopposed morning paper in rich, populous St. Louis, the Globe-Democrat has grown too rich and stodgy for its own good. Last week, this eminently respectable old newsorgan was haled to court to show why it should not be suspended as a penalty for having conducted a common lottery against the peace & dignity of the State of Missouri...
This surprising state of affairs had its beginning last spring when the staid Globe-Democrat decided to have a fling at big-time circulation promotion. Scheme adopted was one invented and successfully used by the rowdy New York Post and sold for $26,167 through its Publishers' Service Co. to the provincial paper. Known as the "Famous Names" cartoon contest, the circulation-catcher presented 84 drawings, one each day, by Cartoonist Peter Arno and a daily list from which readers were to guess the correct picture title. Like most such schemes, "Famous Names" was easy at first, soon grew...
...Last week, however, Sonoma County learned to its astonishment that State's Attorney Ulysses Sigel Webb had had informations filed against 23 prominent citizens, including President Arthur Meese and Secretary Frederick Cairns of the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce, City Editor Julian Mayar of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. All were charged with kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, assault to commit bodily injury on Green and Nitzberg. The defendants, later reduced to 21. all represented by one law firm, had their $500 bail paid at once by sympathetic friends...