Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Vandyke, Wilson Democrat. Princeton patriarch. Reason: "In Defense of Religious Liberty...
James Cash Penney, chain stores, Florida Democrat. Reason: Prohibition; Farmers...
John R. Tally, Mississippi Democrat, nominee for presidential elector (resigned). Reason: Prohibition...
...Hearst's own 26 newspapers had given no clear reflection of his stand because in different cities different stands are needed to please different groups of readers. Mr. Hearst used to be a Democrat. But ever since he was publicly tongue-lashed by Alfred Emanuel Smith in their celebrated quarrel of 1919, et seq., the G. O. P. has grown in Hearst favor. Before the nominating conventions this year, the Hearst press boomed Secretary Mellon for President and Prosperity. When Mayor Walker of New York City visited the Hearst ranch after the Democratic convention, people said he went...
...lovers were married. Village gossips taunted Rachel for "living in sin," and Jackson was quick to defend her honor, and his, in a series of duels. Gossip revived nonetheless every time Jackson ran for office-a frequent occurrence, for he was representative to Congress at Philadelphia (where as a Democrat he disapproved the aristocrat's salons), Senator, head of the state militia, President of the U. S. Election to this post he won chiefly by his spectacular defeat of the British in a campaign which he conducted with fury, picturesque oaths, and sound good sense...