Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected Speaker in January. Mr. McDuffie was an unsuccessful candidate when Rainey was elected in March, 1933. These two, Mr. Bankhead, and perhaps others, will doubtless be candidates for the Speakership again. A many-sided quarrel arousing factional bitterness will not make it any easier for the winning Democrat to manage the House next year...
...Since passage of the law Attorney General Bailey P. Wootton has been beset by jobhunters, some of whom would have been glad to take the job without salary. Last week Mr. Wootton received an application from a nearly ideal candidate who wrote: "I am 80 years old, a good Democrat and well qualified in every...
...smart finger into one of the most turbulent State brews. In 1932 Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette supported the Roosevelt ticket. This year the President would like to see his political friend re-elected were it not for the fact that a regular Democrat might repeat the party's triumph of two years ago. In 1932 Wisconsin elected its first Democratic Governor since 1890?Albert George Schmedeman, clothing merchant, onetime (1926-30) Mayor of Madison, onetime (1913-21) Minister to Norway...
...same time a Wisconsin Democrat named F. Ryan Duffy was elected to the Senate where he has been seen but not heard. This year Albert Schmedeman is again running for Governor as a Democrat, "Bob" La Follette is up for re-election as a Progressive, and Brother "Phil" La Follette is angling for the Progressive nomination as Governor. Should the President endorse Senator La Follette's candidacy too ardently, it would probably ruin any Democratic chance of permanently regaining a lost State. On the other hand, should Mr. Roosevelt come out too hot and heavy for Governor Schmedeman and other...
...election to the Senate: Republican Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, Republican Hiram Johnson of California, Progressive Robert La Follette of Wisconsin. Last January the President publicly announced that he favored Senator Johnson's reelection, thus putting out of joint the nose of many an ambitious California Democrat. On his way back from Hawaii the President, speaking at Green Bay, Wis., is expected to put the stamp of his personal approval on Senator La Follette's candidacy...