Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana, Democrat, ticket mate of the late Progressive candidate for President, Senator LaFollette, was last week freed of a legal charge. A Justice of the District of Columbia Supreme Court quashed an indictment against...
...also different from 1926. In both years a Democrat occupied the City Hall, which sprawls out in a little park at the foot of the Woolworth Building and gazes fondly through its front windows at a marble Hercules called Civic Virtue...
From a muddle of politics Senator Walshs voice rings forth demanding an investigation of the aluminum trust. Had the Montann Democrat not started the successful scent of Teapot Dome, one would be inclined to jeer at his snooping propensities. Among politicians, it is whispered that another sensational exposure will put Senator Walsh in line for the Democratic presidential nomination...
Such opposition as there was, was carried on almost single-handedly by Congressman Henrv T. Rainey of Illinois?fiery, white-haired, 65, like the President an Amherst man ('83), unlike the President, a Democrat. Since 1903 he has served continuously in the House, with only a recess of two years given him by his constituents at the time of the Harding landslide. Many Democrats, including such prominent members as Garner, ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, stood by the bill. But Rainey never flagged in opposition. Every controversial point he fought...
...House, Prohibition came to the fore when the Treasury and Post Office Departments' appropriation bill was disbursed. Representative James A. Gallivan, of Massachusetts, Democrat, spoke to a packed house on a section in the Treasury appropriation providing $250,000 for the arrest of violators of the prohibition law. He described a banquet given by two prohibition agents (as described in an official report...