Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appointed round-faced, bespectacled ex-Congressman Guy Swope,* Pennsylvania's Democrat who had the backing of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, to the Governorship of troubled, depressed, strategic Puerto Rico...
...Only 280 members of the House cared enough about the bill to show up last week for a vote to override the President's veto. Of the 280, 153 wanted to override, 127 said nay. The motion failed for lack of the required two-thirds. Representative Francis Walter, Democrat, of Easton, Pa. (ex-New Dealer who took up the bill when Goodman Logan died), promised to carry on next session. Prospects were that some compromise measure would be cobbled together...
...vast array of hereditary titles settled upon him, a bachelor, a democrat, and the last of his immediate line. His work for closer U. S.-British trade relations ended formally when he resigned from the Government over the Ottawa agreement. In the '30s, during the period of appeasement, he saw his last hope-that Adolf Hitler might still be brought into the fabric of European law & order by adjustments of the Versailles Treaty-end in the invasion of Czecho-Slovakia. And as he arrived in the U. S. as Ambassador, he saw the outbreak of the war which...
...Golconda, Ill., Mrs. Jake Eichorn's cactus, which usually blooms on Thanksgiving Day, bloomed a week early. Mrs. Eichorn is a registered Democrat...
...observes the Word of Wisdom (no tobacco, tea, coffee or strong drink), chews hundreds of sticks of gum annually; as a bishop he marries, buries, and manages church affairs without remuneration. High-school educated, the son of pioneer ranchers, he entered politics four years ago as a Young Democrat, topped the ticket in 1938 in a race for the Legislature, became Speaker of the Assembly in 1939, was re-elected to the Assembly this year...