Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President appointed Silas H. Strawn, of Chicago, a Republican, and Thomas W. Gregory of Austin, Tex., a Democrat, to investigate and prosecute the alleged frauds. Mr. Strawn, although rated as a Republican, was a supporter of Grover Cleveland, and a partial supporter of Woodrow Wilson. He is a member of the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn and Shaw. Garrard Winston, one of his partners, is now Undersecretary of the Treasury. Mr. Strawn is Chairman of the Board of Montgomery Ward & Co. He is Chairman of the American Bar Asso- ciation's Committee on Legal Education...
...Gregory's appointment was withdrawn when he reached Washington. Instead the President was expected to appoint former Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, a Democrat. In political circles it is generally admitted that Mr. Pomerene would have been a strong contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination this year if he had not been defeated for reelection to the Senate...
...President nominated George B. Christian, Jr., Secretary to President Harding, for a post on the Federal Trade Board. Opposition to the appointment came from Senator Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, and Senator King, Democrat, of Utah. They declared that the former Secretary to the President was not qualified...
...Democrat writing to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee referred to the disclosures of the Senate Public Lands Committee in regard to leases of Naval oil reserves as "this scandal which is a stench in the nostrils of all decent citizens." The past week did much to shed light on, if not purify, the matter...
...according to himself, slow to embrace it at all. It is true that beginning with Jan. 18, 1898, he served various terms of imprisonment amounting in all to ten years. "It was in prison that I finally became converted to the theory of Marx." He was a Social Democrat. After the Brussels Conference of 1903, when the Socialist Convention split to become known as Bolshevik* and Menshevik Parties, he joined the Mensheviki. "As soon as Menshevism began to assume the character of a tactical movement. . . I broke with the Mensheviki and remained outside both factions," he related. After Bloody Sunday...