Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the committee room marched a clownish young man named William N. McNair, a Democrat but no New Dealer, who loudly announced: "Well. I'm Mayor of Pittsburgh. I've come down to discuss the tax bill as it affects our city. You've taken a lot of money out of Pittsburgh. This bill has a new name, but it means that more money is coming to Washington from Pittsburgh than came before. . . . You already take $100,000,000 a year from our city. If you pass this law, a lot more money will come to Washington...
...announcing that he had launched an independent investigation of the crime under New Jersey's famed small-town detective, Ellis Parker. The Governor charged State Police Superintendent H. Norman Schwarzkopf, a non-Hoffman Republican holdover, with having bungled the original investigation. He accused Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Democrat, of having conducted Hauptmann's prosecution at Flemington with bias and prejudice...
Meantime the bickerings of Republican Hoffman and Democrat Wilentz were filling the Press with charges and counter-charges which grew more bitter every day. When Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon took ship for Panama, Governor Hoffman threatened to have him brought back for questioning. Superintendent Schwarzkopf announced that purported representatives of the Governor had tampered with his State troopers, tried to make them admit that Hauptmann had-been framed. Governor Hoffman impugned the credibility of the chief state witnesses at the Hauptmann trial. Last fortnight he took a PWA wood expert to Hauptmann's home in The Bronx, emerged...
...Mayoral candidate behind whom anti-Hoan forces are massed is Joseph John Shinners, 54, a 6-ft. 4-in., 255-lb. Irish Democrat who was a first-rate rough-&-tumble policeman in Milwaukee's old days, went into the trucking-&-warehouse business in 1912 and since 1932 has been the able sheriff of Milwaukee County. A Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus and father of ten, Candidate Shinners is expected to draw a strong Catholic vote. He is also backed by the American Legion and the Nazi Friends of New Germany. Asked whether it is true that...
Died. George R. Dale, 69, Indiana publisher & politician; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Muncie, Ind. In 1921 he founded the Muncie Post-Democrat, declared war on the Ku Klux Klan. Hoodlums stoned him, slugged him, smashed his presses, forced him to print his newspaper outside the State. In 1925, indicted for bootlegging, Editor Dale was sentenced to jail by a judge he had attacked, claimed he had been framed. Newspapers, led by the late New York World, rushed to his defense, carried his case to the U. S. Supreme Court where it was dismissed on a technicality. In 1932, after three...