Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shrewd, New Deal-hating Howard W. Smith, Virginia Democrat, author of a dozen anti-labor bills, warned: "This inflation threat is so dangerous, so imminent that I do not think we should burn this bridge down because we are mad at somebody." Representative Wright Patman of Texas counseled: "Remember that in Russia milk costs $7 a half pint, butter $70 a pound, a suit of clothes $450." The House, heedless, swept on. After months of inaction the members wanted to seize this first clear chance to smash at the Administration. Anti-Administration Democrats and Republicans alike joined...
...Buenos Aires Pedro Ramirez was asked if he considered himself a democrat. Said he: "What Argentina...
Chicago's newspapers (except the Tribune) pointed out that the State Commission was appointed by Republican Governor Dwight H. Green, who might conceivably hate to see Democrat Ed Kelly get credit for untangling the transit tangle. Mayor Kelly shouted: "An outrage. . . ." But the Commission's decision was final...
...great teacher and-in his field-a great realist. Upon English grammar he gazed with a fondly passionate eye, that knew and loved it as it was, not as it should be. Upon England he looked somewhat as though she were Denmark's interesting offspring.* A Social-Democrat, Jespersen liked neither capital letters (used for all Danish nouns) nor kings (although he did not much mind Denmark's King Christian X). He saw traces of the democratic spirit in the very bones and muscles of English speech...
...year Republican voting trend continued. After 16 years as Mayor of Baltimore, ruddy, cherubic Howard Wilkinson Jackson, 65, last week found himself out of a job. Democrat Jackson, who had kept a profitable insurance business on the side, was soundly trounced (20,000 votes) by Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, 42, fireman's son, lawyer, spellbinder. All other Democrats on the ticket were elected, but Republicans had won the best flitch of political bacon. Democrats, who have lost the mayoralty only twice before since 1900, blamed the defeat on 1) the accumulated enmities which pile up on any longtime officeholder...