Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edgar Howard of Nebraska-long hair à la W. J. B. A heavy face also resembling the Commoner's. A high whiny voice, pleading at times. His favorite sport is asking "innocent questions" which convulse the House with laughter, for he has wit. He calls himself "a free Democrat." At home he is a newspaper publisher...
Robert H. Clancy of Michigan-refers to himself as "The Billion Dollar Congressman" during campaigns. Went to the House first as a Democrat, was beaten at the polls and is now there as a Republican, violently partisan. He is the great "whisperer" of the House, with all manner of "inside dope," often quite worthless. He considers himself the privileged Representative of the motor industry. Hence his self-conferred title. As a Democrat he was a pleasant character whom all liked: as a Republican he poses as a "statesman." The House smiles...
Died. The Rev. Edgar Young Mullins, 68, for 29 years President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., potent Anti-Smith Democrat; from paralysis, in Louisville...
...your issue of Nov. 12 under "Governors" you comment on Gov. George. W. P. Hunt of Arizona as follows: "Unique among all U. S. political executives is Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt.'' Then follows a farrago of inanities of personal description such as "once strong as an ox, now 69 and bald as a turtle," etc. and "No U. S. mustache is more famed than his. Once frowsy and walrusy, it is now smartly waxed." How, in the name of common sense does this latter connect up with or throw light upon his uniqueness? When the editor...
Creek) as Senator from Wyoming. This was an error. Wyoming Democrats declared that it was a "glaring" error and an "egregious" error. Final returns showed that Senator John Benjamin Kendrick, Democrat, cattleman, 32° Mason, of Sheridan, Wyoming, had been reelected by 8,700 votes which, in Wyoming, is a comfortable margin. It will be Senator Kendrick's third successive term. Aged 71, Senator Kendrick is a member of the committees on Agriculture and Forestry, Appropriations, Indian Affairs, Irrigation and Reclamation, Public Lands and Surveys...