Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last December Postmaster General Farley learned that Postmistress Harrington's term was due to expire in January, listened sympathetically to a Highland Falls, N. Y. bigwig who wished to appoint a deserving female Democrat in her stead. The news leaked out. Opposition from all quarters, especially from U. S. Army officials, who considered her post inviolate from patronage, forced "General" Farley to drop his candidate. Last fortnight the Army and Navy Journal charged that James A. Farley was still out to oust Postmistress Harrington...
...readiness to clinch the wagers when Spotswood D. Bowers, Mr. Gerard's law partner, suddenly recalled a New York law which denies felons, bribe-takers and those who bet on elections the right to vote. Obvious to all was the embarrassing probability that Democrat Gerard would, if he publicly bet his $20,000, be challenged at the polls...
...Portuguese immigrant who became a shoemaker in Philadelphia. His father, "a self-made literate," volunteered as a drummer-boy in the Civil War, was invalided out of the Army of the Potomac when he was 14. He went on to become a successful corporation lawyer, an anti-Bryan Democrat, the author of various respectable treatises on such subjects as interstate commerce, the husband of a Southern lady who presented him with Son John Roderigo...
...Civil Service Commission, headed by Democrat Harry B. Mitchell, professed great enthusiasm at this latest Roosevelt reform. Cocky Republicans claimed their attacks on the President and "General" Farley were solely responsible for bringing it about. But wiseacres pointed out that the order could not possibly embarrass the Democratic machine. If reelected, Franklin Roosevelt has only to reappoint the Democrats now in office, after they satisfy the Commission that they are literate. If Governor Landon is elected, he will have either to rescind last week's order, and thus be accused of wrecking the civil service, or else carry...
...Europe on vacation last week James Watson Gerard, U. S. Wartime Ambassador to Germany and current chairman of the Democratic National Finance Committee, made news by announcing that he had posted $20,000 to be wagered on President Roosevelt's reelection. "I'm offering 2-to-1 odds," trumpeted this old-time Democrat, "and no takers yet. How strange! But there you are. That will show you better than anything else how confident I am of a Roosevelt victory...