Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortune on a new political machine largely recruited from the Spanish-American population. Later accused of buying the vote, he muffled his critics by inviting investigation, then remarked: "The purchasable vote in New Mexico is not nearly as large as most people think." Nominally Republican, he helped elect a Democrat to the Senate in 1924. This move so blurred the State's party lines that when in 1927 the Governor appointed Mr. Cutting to an unexpired term in the Senate, local politicians resolved themselves into pro and ante Cutting factions. In 1928 he was elected for the full term...
...deliberate ambiguity about his money plans did not encourage supersensitive businessmen, whose apprehensions he had spent the last three weeks trying to assuage through quiet missionary work among bigwig White House visitors. That very day a White House guest had been Morgan Partner Russell Cornell Leffingwell, a potent Democrat and Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Twenty-four hours later, Business was given something to get really jittery about...
...have brought Today only 59,000 circulation in its first year is a baffling fact. But last week Editor Raymond Moley proved that, if he is not a successful editor, he is an honest one. His subject was California's Upton ("Epic") Sinclair. Had he aped all bigwig Democrats-Senator William Gibbs ("McAdoodle") McAdoo or James Aloysius Farley or even No. 1 Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt-he would have scratched the back of Democracy's latest, queerest duckling. Instead, spunky Editor Moley wrote...
...group, named United Newspaper Magazine Corp., includes such potent members as the New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Baltimore Sim, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Washington Star, Boston Herald, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Beginning Feb. 24 the 21 will appear with the identical Sunday* tabloid magazine called This Week. Combined circulation: 4,051,000. Advertising rate: $10,000 a page. This Week's editor will be the Herald Tribune's Mrs. William Brown Meloney (TIME, Oct. 8). She will make it more conservative than The American Weekly, with first-run fiction, tony articles...
...Election betting on Socialist-turned-Democrat Upton Sinclair plunged to even money. Forthwith the stocks of six big California enterprises listed on the New York Stock Exchange sloughed off $60,000,000 in total value in one day. The market value of the securities of California's three leading utilities has dropped $100,000,000 since the August primaries when Mr. Sinclair was nominated. A list of 20 California stocks (including preferreds) has dropped 16% in the last five weeks...