Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edgar Young Mullins, Kentucky Democrat, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Reason: Prohibition...
...William R. Pattangall, Maine Democrat, since 1916 a justice of Maine's Supreme Court.* Reason: "The Democratic party . . . has for the time being passed into hands not properly qualified to administer...
...Peek," of course, was George Nelson Peek, the Democrat-Republican from Illinois who used to make plows at Moline, Ill.; who served Woodrow Wilson on the War Industries Board; who became chairman of the Committee of Twenty-two organized several years ago by Governor Hammill (Republican) of Iowa† and other Farmers' Friends; and who lobbied the McNary-Haugen Bill (first version) through Congress from a desk in Vice President Dawes' ante-room...
...Smith-Peek conference and the Lowden surmise having passed into Democratic annals, Chairman Raskob pondered the name of B. F. Yoakum. A long letter bearing that signature had followed Mr. Peek into Democratic headquarters. Benjamin F. Yoakum is a Democrat, a retired railroad executive* who developed the southwest's farming much as the late James J. Hill developed the northwest's. In his Manhattan office, he has been spending recent years offering sane and respected solutions of economic problems. Six years ago he suggested a plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad...
Many a dubious Democrat has mumbled gravely, "I am a Democrat," when asked if he would bolt Nominee Smith. Robert Latham Owen, oldtime Democrat, visited Hoover headquarters in Manhattan last week and announced distinctly: "I am in favor of Herbert Hoover." Then he read a long, prepared laudation of the Hoover career and character. He was asked if he felt, as a Democrat, that he could not stand for Nominee Smith. "I won't stand for him! That's worse!" cried Bolter Owen. "I am an American citizen and not a coward. I'll be damned...