Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaker. "... I had rather be Speaker of the House of Representatives than hold any other office in the gift of the American people." So said Nicholas Longworth, Ohio Republican, after being re-elected Speaker of the House, 225 to 187, over Finis J. Garrett, Tennessee Democrat...
...shouted James A. Gallivan, Massachusetts Democrat, after the reading of the Deficiency Bill. Later he was unabashed by a report from Charge d'Affaires Whitehouse in Paris, denying the alleged spying on Mayor Walker of New York City, whom Mr. Gallivan, a cunning clown, denied having named by name. The outburst served merely to notify the 70th Congress that jocose Mr. Gallivan, who little resembles most Harvard men of the '80's, was again on hand with his alliterative eloquence, his unquenchable Americanism...
...youngest is one of the most troublesome to the regular Republicans. "Young Bob" LaFollette, chubby, shy and 33, does his young best to carry on as his Progressive father carried on before him. He was scheduled to reintroduce his resolution of last spring condemning presidential third terms. From the Democratic point of view it might seem like sending a boy on a man's errand to let "Young Bob" do this. But sometimes a boy does better than a man, especially on a saucy errand. Through "Young Bob" the Democrats will see their purpose served without loading themselves with responsibility...
...they came ? ruddy Robinson of Arkansas, chief Democrat, to confer good naturedly with any who passed by; his lieutenant Simmons, of North Carolina, who looked very bored; small-eyed Watson of Indiana, quieter than usual; Connecticut's Bingham, a tailor's joy with suave words for every one; Ashurst of Arizona, impressive as ever; flowery Blease of South Carolina...
Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, Wet Democrat, ate haggis* with the St. Andrew's Society last week in Manhattan. Said he: "About the only things that make eyes flash and stir human emotions now are Prohibition, the K. K. K., religious intolerance and Fundamentalism. . . . The real question is not whether you are 'wet' or 'dry,' to use the inept phrases of the hour, but whether there should be a national, blanket law governing any such question of personal conduct when that law receives neither sanction nor regard among large communities and groups...