Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youngest member of Congress is George Hamilton Combs Jr., a minister's son from Missouri. Now aged 29, he represents the 367,846 inhabitants of Jackson County. He is a Democrat. Last week he arose in the House to make one of his infrequent speeches. It was a speech addressed to his fellow Democrats, whom he flayed roundly for their post-election faultfinding with National Democratic Chairman John J. Raskob...
...Youngest Democrat Combs had this much to say: "For eight years we [Democrats] have been wobbling along without leadership and without clearly visioned policy. For the first time in eight years the Democratic party has had vitality, it has had aggressiveness, it has had that which makes for an intelligent and for an aggressive campaign leadership. I do not believe that any of us feel that the business man has any monopoly on virtue, or that a man taken from the ranks of business is necessarily holier or more pious than the man who comes from the ranks of politics...
Died. Jacob McGavock Dickinson, 77, Secretary of War in the Taft administration, native of Mississippi, anti-Bryan Democrat, Confederate veteran, of Chicago; in Chicago...
...Great Election Banquet," however, Mr. Edmond's contribution, is of another order entirely. The banquet of the Democrats of Oneida country, all fourteen of them with the addition of the stage driver who voted both Democrat and Federalist, a banquet which culminated with the practical destruction of the Baptist steeple and the absolute inundation of all the guests to the great discomfort of the Federalists who had to foot the bill and stay sober, is a pretty homeric tale. If (in the manner of Time's advertisements) you are curious to know who shouted 'Oysthersh' from under the table...
There was a definition: "A Nordic is a Southern Democrat who takes a good stiff shot of 100 per cent American corn-and then votes for Hoover...