Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week it was tax cutting, to start with. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce had called for a tax cut of 400 millions with special relief for corporations. Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the potent Senate Finance Committee, was in Washington talking about a tax cut of perhaps 500 millions. President Coolidge sharply announced that, with a U. S. debt of 18 billions, a tax cut of 500 millions was out of the question and 400 millions was immoderate. He strongly favored some tax reduction, he said, but would not say how much. Prior...
Senator James A. Reed, Missouri's dynamic Democrat, let fly: ". . . another move of Morgan & Co. to get its financial hooks into Mexico...
...York Times, outstanding U. S. Democrat, countered solidly for the President, saying: "Mr. Coolidge must fully have anticipated the charges that will be made against him in connection with the Morrow appointment, but decided to despise them...
Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher of Florida, another Democrat, said: "Mr. Morrow, I am sure, has the ability and qualifications required for the position. If he has decided to relinquish private business and devote himself to public interests, he can serve his country and Mexico with happy results in promoting good will, co-operation and eco-nomic conditions to the advantage of all concerned...
Daniel Richard Crissinger had always been a Democrat, but now that a Republican "Stunner" was playing the biggest game of all, the least a "Chain Ganger" could do was change his politics for the time being. When "Stunner" Harding was elected President, he returned the guerdon of friendship, taking "Chain Ganger" Crissinger down to Washington to be Comptroller of the Currency...