Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moses, trim and aggressive, occasion ally unleashed his lightning wit, or gave a neat whip cut across the flank of an attacking Democrat. Smoot, the Mormon elder, tall and slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall...
Borah, Republican, Chairman; Jones (of Wash.) Republican; Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite; Caraway, Democrat; Bayard, Democrat...
...chosen President by the House, the Senate in electing a Vice President could not elect a Vice President from his ticket, because the Senate is limited in its choice to the two highest on the list of Vice Presidential candidates. Then La Follette would have a Republican or a Democrat as his substitute in case of death. "Mr. La Follette," the calendar grimly remarks...
...astute Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, thoroughgoing Democrat, has no use for diluted World Courts. Accordingly when Senator Lodge and his Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee reported a proposal by Senator Pepper for a much amended and reservationed World Court, Mr. Glass explained: "If I were disposed to treat such grave matters with levity, I would say that Senator Lodge had changed his tactics-heretofore he has been throwing sand in the eyes of the people, while now he is throwing Pepper...
...less favored legislation the sign was raised long ago. The proposed Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution is in this class. It went to the Senate three weeks ago. Senator Lodge (Republican) proposed considering it; Senator Wadsworth (Republican) objected. It was "postponed." Last week Senator David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat) proposed considering it; Senator King (Democrat) objected. For the benefit of constituents this comedy can be repeated several times more before the close of the session-and with variation, such as a Democrat proposing and a Republican objecting, or a Republican proposing and a Democrat objecting...