Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chamber exploded violently. Representative Huddleston, diminutive Democrat from Alabama, trotted down the aisle and went into action under Secretary Wilbur's nose...
...announced that it would examine the papers of the late President Harding, particularly those concerning the sale of his Marion Star for the large sum of $380,000. On the floor of the Senate, that same afternoon, campaign funds were on a dozen lashing tongues. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democrat, told of a Republican dinner in Chicago in 1920 where Vice President Coolidge made "a rip snorting speech" before "the big fat fellows from all over the country, who had more money than they knew what to do with." Senator Borah made another plea for his Republican retribution fund...
After three days of balloting, with complete returns from 13 colleges and universities, the Secretary of Commerce tops the list with 11,510 votes. Smith is the leading Democrat, having polled...
...Patten: "Well, Cyrus calls himself a Democrat, but I don't know. Cyrus is a Democrat, I guess, because he was born that way, but I think he votes the Republican ticket about as often...
...tariff. Smith is a Democrat; but in these days of scrambled politics it does not follow that a Democrat--especially a Democrat from an industrial State--is necessarily a free trader. How far Smith would go in the matter of tariff reduction is an open question...