Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime Democrat, he became Secretary of the Treasury in a Republican administration. As such, he financed the first war which the U. S. fought against a civilized country other than Great Britain.* He was official head of Chicago's World's Fair. He was long President of Chicago's First National Bank-"its brains and body" forgotten La Salle Streeters called him. He married a Minnesota woman, a Colorado woman, a California woman. He "discovered" Frank A. Vanderlip. At 80, a soft veil of hair covered his head; with spreading beard and whiskers, he looked more...
...President Grover Cleveland (Gold Democrat) offered him the treasury seat. Mr. Gage refused. In 1896, he and other Gold Democrats helped Mark A. Hanna defeat William Jennings Bryan (Silver-tongued Silver Democrat) and, to be polite to the Gold Democrats who voted for his candidate, Mark Hanna gave Mr. Gage the Treasury post in William McKinley's Cabinet. Theodore Roosevelt irked Mr. Gage, and he left the Cabinet as soon after Mr. McKinley's death as it was proper to do so. He had done his work well. Mr. Gage had but two honorary degrees-one from Beloit...
...election is a story beginning and ending in Precinct 6 of District J. It happens to be the Jewish precinct of Denver, and in the autumn of 1924 was marked "easy" by the politicians of both sides. The Republicans said they wanted all the votes for State Senators-the Democrats could have the rest. One of Judge Lindsey's minor assistants asked the precinct-tsar to "look after Ben out there," and paid him $25. The vote-counters counted the votes to make the answer come out right, and Judge Lindsey, among others, was elected. His opponent, one Royal...
...Formerly a Democrat, he resigned from his party last week, since it had come to oppose his consistent championship of "the military" against "the politicians," an attitude which has won him the strong support of Old Soldier von Hindenburg...
...original plan was to ride the proposed law through the Legislature in an unobtrusive gocart. But Senator Bernard Downing, Democrat leader, heard of it at Albany; cried: "The State Senate will give such a proposition a great deal of serious attention...