Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevada has both its Senators on the Senate Committee of Mines and Mining-and well it may, for Nevada is one of the chief silver producing states of this country. Senator Tasker L. Oddie (Republican) and State Hughes uses, or rather misuses, Senator Key Pittman (Democrat) are the men. Both have been engaged in the mining business at one time or another. At the age of 25 Key Pittman joined the gold rush to Alaska and worked for two years as a common miner. Later he became the first district attorney of Nome. He returned to the United States proper...
Senator Wheeler, who is only 41 years of age, is a Democrat and a " radical." In 1920 he was defeated in the election for the governorship of Montana. Last Fall with the aid of the Non-Partisan League he was elected Senator. He has allied himself with the progressive bloc in Congress...
...enemies said, something of a demagogue, bitter and sectional. But he was fearless, and brilliant in attack on the floor of the House. The tariff was his home territory and he knew it like the proverbial book. He made his name as a Democrat by attacking the free lumber plank in the Democratic platform of 1908. He strengthened his posi-tion in the following year by his attack on "Cannonism" and the tariff...
...just want to say," said the attorney general for the National Association of Retail Druggists, "that although I was with the Republican National Committee for 20 years, I am advocating a Democrat for the next President and I shall use my influence with the 50,000 druggists of the United States...
Parallels are not hard to find with Theodore Roosevelt,* whose neice he married. Both went to Harvard, to Albany, to the Navy Department on the eve of war, and both were shuttled into vice presidential candidates. Franklin is as good a Democrat as Theodore was a Republican. He fought Tammany as the other Roosevelt fought the Old Guard. And both are associated with a love of books, people and the out-of-doors. Both favored large families...