Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ways and Means Committee Wesley E. Disney, Oklahoma's grey, square-jawed reactionary Democrat, hurried a bill to repeal the President's $25,000 salary limit. Wary of a veto, Disney made his bill a rider on the Administration's urgent legislation raising the statutory limit of the national debt to $210,000,000,000. Franklin Roosevelt would have to sign that...
...20th-century history, and in the fourth he is still one of the most adroit and likable quick-change artists in the profession. He can beard Basil Zaharoff with tips from The Beyond, josh Hermann Goring, rip off a bit of Beethoven for "Adi" Schicklgruber, rescue a beautiful Social Democrat from "Naziland" and an intrepid young Briton from the Spanish Fascists. He can carom all over "this old continent" (Europe) in his high-powered roadster, keeping dates with the major crises of his time, without for a moment losing the reader's interest and sympathy...
Anti-labor Congressmen got busy in the House last week, hustled out of the conservative Judiciary Committee a bill to make labor unions subject to the 1934 Federal Anti-Racketeering Act. Brawny, drawling Sam Hobbs, union-hating Alabama Democrat, drew the bill, stalking-horse for other labor measures to come...
...accused of being a Nazi sympathizer and corrupter of American youth by Representative Edmond J. Donlan. Hooton, in his own defense, claimed "I am not a fascist. For many years I have written and spoken against the Nazi theory of Nordic race purity and supremacy. . . . I am a democrat...
...pioneer father, child of a frontier society, Jefferson could be best described as an agrarian democrat. Readers who turn to him for a political program applicable to the machine age will be disappointed. They will also find some of the harshest words ever spoken against U.S. labor...