Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Fitzsimons, mother of William H. Vanderbilt, who talked a great deal, the result was left to Newport's 25,000 citizens who make their living off the "summer people" and the sailors from the Naval station. For 17 years the Mayor of Newport has always been a Democrat. Last week, though, Newporters, in political tune with the rest of their Congressional district (see p. 20), chose a Republican named Henry Stevens Wheeler, 41, onetime newshawk. While local red-bloods were solely responsible for the change, visiting bluebloods warmly applauded over their teacups...
...following morning to the effect that the New Deal had taken a stiff drubbing in the smallest of states. Others less preoccupied were well aware of what was going on. The Press had properly foreseen it as a coming test of the New Deal. Rhode Island's Senators, Democrat Peter Gerry and Republican Jesse Metcalf, had both suspended operations in Washington to go home and campaign. Postmaster General Farley, vacationing westward, had as usual wired the chief Democratic nominee ''best wishes" on a happy term in Washington. And even Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who supposedly...
...etat. By a rotten borough system Republicans had always held control of the State Senate, and by an ingenious law, the Senate, if it did not wish to confirm the Governor's appointees, could name other officers in their stead. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor might be Democrats, the General Assembly might be controlled by a Democratic majority, but Republicans still ran Rhode Island. Such was the situation in 1933 and 1934. One afternoon last January, when Governor Theodore F. Green was to take office for the second time, Democrats challenged the election of enough Republican Senators to create...
...bought!" Bubbled Maine's Senator Hale: "It shows what's coming at the next election." Only discordant Republican voice was that of Ohio's onetime Senator Fess moaning in political limbo: "I don't see how the strongest Republican . . . can beat the weakest Democrat with nearly $5,000,000,000 at his disposal...
...provided the great climax and anticlimax of his life. As a member of the Red Cross Mission during Kerensky's term of office, deeply influenced by Major Raymond Robins, he understood the meaning of revolutionary developments that baffled and outraged Allied diplomats, generals and political experts. A natural democrat, he tried to strengthen Kerensky's government. To forestall the Bolsheviki, he made available for famed oldtime anti-Tsarist martyrs, a million dollars of his personal fortune. The money was to be used for propaganda among the soldiers, urging them to continue the War on the grounds that German...