Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...therefore, a Democrat who tries to represent the wishes of his constituency is to be punished by being denied the opportunity to recommend men for public offices such as collectors of internal revenue, post masterships and so on, thus weakening his prestige in his own district, then what possible advantage, it will be asked in the next campaign, is it for the same district to be represented by a Democrat in preference to a Republican...
With this type of campaign appeal a Republican will have a better chance than by opposing the President 100 per cent. So will a Democrat who enters the primaries to oppose another democrat who may happen to be committed to unqualified and unconditional support of the administration...
Died. Melvin Alvah Traylor, 55, Chicago banker and Democrat; of pneumonia; in Chicago...
...Jacksonian Democrat, McConaughy has few heroes besides Old Hickory. One of them is Aaron Burr, another his creature, the original Tammany Hall. "The picture of a Tammany victory as a beneficent act of God, with an Aaron Burr as the Divine instrument, is somewhat startling to us today. But it was accepted with delirious joy by a majority of our forefathers a hundred and thirty-odd years ago. . . ." Strict-interpretationist, McConaughy thinks the Constitution has never been given a trial, says it has been warped from the start by the Supreme Court into a shield for special privilege. He starts...
...wanting to tell people how many books he has read and how nice they all were, and in sympathy we can forgive much. We can wink at his little knack of splitting infinitives and misusing words; we can smile tolerantly when he tells us that Edmund Burke was a Democrat and "A Vindication of Natural Society" the most sincere expression of his political philosophy; we can, with an effort, keep our gorge down when he says he can never forget a certain line in "Kubla Khan" and proceeds to mangle its beauty by misquotation. But when, after rising...