Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today, beneath these immemorial column, we are met together in solemn conclave, for a purpose, whether Republican or Democrat, Capitalist or Agriculturalist, Eliotite or Dunsterian, Northern or Amateur, History and Lit., or Physics, Black man or White man, Eastern or Western, or even mid-western, we are united in a cause...
Four House Democrats and three Republicans conducted the investigation, chairmanned by Democrat John W. Mc-Cormack of South Boston, precipitated by the anti-Nazi outcries of Democrat Samuel Dickstein of Manhattan. For counsel the committee retained Thomas William Hardwick, onetime (1914-19) Senator, onetime (1921-23) Governor of Georgia. A fat-faced, roly-poly little man in horn-rimmed spectacles, he rustled papers between nicotine-stained fingers, showed none of Ferdinand Pecora's mental agility in driving witnesses into tight corners. Counsel Hardwick had great difficulty pronouncing "swastika," finally compromised on "swat-sicka." For three full days...
Died. Jesse Root Grant, 76, mining engineer, youngest son of President Ulysses Simpson Grant; in Los Altos. Calif." A Democrat, he unsuccessfully tried to get his party's Presidential nomination against William Jennings Bryan...
...hours later in the chamber above the restaurant, Representative Braswell Deen of Georgia tried to yank back into his seat another Democrat who had risen to vote with Republicans. Republican Ralph Eltse of California leaped across the aisle, flung Mr. Deen roughly into another seat. The Georgian rose and doubled up his fists. The Californian raised his hands defensively. The sergeant-at-arms scurried up the aisle and escorted Mr. Deen from the chamber...
...people. That would come later. The great summer drought of 1930 did not deliver its full impact of human misery until the following autumn and winter. Recalling the volunteer assistance which South Dakota gave Arkansas in those terrible times, Editor W. T. Sitlington of the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat called upon the farmers of his State to repay a "mercy debt." Taking the cue, Governor J. Marion Futrell of Arkansas declared : "Gratitude calls upon the people of Arkansas who are able to do so, to show their appreciation and to show that they never forget a friend." Last week...