Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swore in Dennis Chavez as Senator from New Mexico, succeeding the late Bronson Cutting who was killed while returning from New Mexico on a trip concerned with the election contest filed against him by Democrat Chavez. Fellow Progressives in the Senate, devoted to Senator Cutting, hotly resented the Administration's efforts to displace him through the Chavez candidacy and subsequent contest (TIME, May 20). This week, as Senator-Designate Chavez reached Vice President Garner's desk, after marching down the aisle to take his oath, the only Progressives present-Senators La Follette. Norris, Johnson, Nye and Shipstead-ostentatiously...
...excluded, Harvard would have been long in living down the just accusation that she hated her enemies more than she hated needless human slaughter. Similarly when redbaiters, more fanatical than any red, forget that they are first men, and that only second are they Liberal, Conservative, Red, Republican, or Democrat, then those immoderate haters only show the shallowness of their own humankind-ness...
...Hill. Significance of Harry Byrd's opposition is that many Senators and Representatives, though not Virginians, not apple growers, not farmers, are like him. They are Democrats who have not been inspired by the New Deal philosophy. The Democratic Party has 69 Senators and 319 Representatives in Congress but the New Deal never had so many. The New Deal's laws have been passed by a combination of the progressives of all parties and by Democrats loyal to the New Deal because it bears their party label. Many a Democrat has put party loyalty above his own convictions...
...Head. Before his roistering House, Speaker Byrns would be completely at a loss without two arms that help to uphold the Head of the House. One of them is bland, supercilious Representative John J. O'Connor, Tammanyman and brother of Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner. Democrat O'Connor, as Chairman of the Rules Committee, has helped in part to make up for the absence of Leader Bankhead. Only trouble is that Chairman O'Connor is so willing to stiff-arm opposition that he is not overly beloved by the House...
...Speaker's other arm is Lewis Deschler. "Lew" Deschler is neither a Democrat nor a Representative. He is a young, black-haired Republican who was brought to the House by Speaker Longworth. He sits below and at the right of the Speaker, playing the role of House Parliamentarian. Regardless of politics, he holds his job because he is able to advise the Speaker how to dissolve parliamentary tangles as the Administration wishes them dissolved. He shies at photographers and blushes when he talks but is one of the most important people in the House, the brains which make...