Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jennings Randolph, 39, Democrat, of Elkins, W.Va., is chairman of the House District Committee, source of all House legislation affecting the voteless District of Columbia. Last week he laid before the House a bill authorizing experimental blackouts for the Capital...
...June 28 Texas holds a primary to pick a Senator in place of the late Morris Sheppard, and last week Franklin Roosevelt set out to capture the State for the New Deal. The irony of the situation was that the nation's No. 1 Democrat, who has Texas in his pocket on foreign affairs, has had to rely on Texas politicians rather than on bright young New Dealers to support his domestic policies. And Texas gave him Garner and Dies, thorns in his side. But a greater irony was that political wiseacres did not think the nation...
...when he voted, he probably voted twice, and for the Democrats. Vag laughed. Mike had come from some place like the Tennessee back country, most likely, where they still talked about Andy Jackson and the way he cleaned things up in Washington when he was elected. In Tennessee a fellow who didn't own a big spread of buckshot land and had to scratch along in the pines some-where didn't see things just the same way as a Virginia Whig. So Mike Fink was a Democrat...
...could conceive him [Winston Churchill] in a great upheaval, he would be seen emerging in the role of what Bagehot calls 'a Benthamite despot,' dismissing all feudal ideas and legitimist pretensions, sweeping aside all aristocracies, proclaiming the democratic doctrine of the 'greatest happiness of the greatest number' and seating himself astride the storm as the people's Caesar-at once dictator and democrat...
...unobtrusive decision not to participate proved consistent with the opinion of our members who have not subscribed to the view consistently reiterated at the meeting, viz. that the war is simply an imperialistic venture in which no democrat has a substantial interest. The Executive Council, Harvard Liberal Union...