Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considerations over purely political movements in Europe, declares that the age of politics has passed, and taken with it the demagogue. Certainly in this country the laborers riding in cars produced by the most pronounced capitalism are too prosperous to cry out against Wall Street. The words Republican or Democrat are no longer clannish distinctions because the differences over farm relief, ship building, and the tariff, little interest the unaffected majority. Politics has yielded place as the prime subject for discussion. Even the irregularities of the Harding administration aroused little feeling, and few demands for disclosures. The public attitude...
...70th Congress assembles on Dec. 5. Its component parts began filtering into Washington last week. In Denver, a special election returned S. Harrison White, Democrat, the victor over State Senator Francis J. Knauss, Republican, to fill the vacancy in the House of Representatives left by the death of Representative William N. Vaile, Republican. That made the House membership...
While the Representatives were meeting, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, Missouri Democrat, was busy enlisting the support of colleagues in both parties for a Missouri Plan of flood control. This plan provided for: a) five commissioners appointed by the President to govern flood control, navigation and conservation in the Mississippi Basin; b) appropriations of $100,000,000 per annum for ten years; c) a bond issue, such as built the Panama Canal and the Alaska Railway...
...Jersey stayed strongly Republican in both houses of its Legislature. . . . Democratic Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City again demonstrated his strength when his henchmen elected eleven of the 14 Democrats in the State Assembly. ... In Princeton, B. Frank Bunn, keeper of the University store, was elected mayor over Democratic Orren Jack Turner, town photographer. For the first time in Princeton's history, students of the University were kept from voting by the local election board. Professor Edward A. Stephens of the Hun Preparatory School, just outside the Princeton limits, was arrested for perjury when he swore his legal residence...
Kentucky. Flem D. Sampson, Republican, stood for retaining "pari-mutuel"*betting machines at racetracks. J. C. W. Beckham, Democrat, onetime (1915-21) U. S. Senator and onetime (1900-07) Governor, stood against mechanical, state-supervised betting, for private bookmaking. Each wanted to be Kentucky's Governor. Kentucky had a hard time deciding, but chose Mr. Sampson and the betting machines. Governor-elect Sampson announced that he would appoint none of his kin to office; that he who has three daughters,† would revoke Governor William J. Field's present rule against dancing in the executive mansion...