Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Navy Program. "It was a slap in the face for President Coolidge," said Representative McClintic of Oklahoma, Democrat. It was also another thwack for Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, when the House Naval Affairs Committee voted last week, 15 to 1, to rewrite the Administration's Navy building program. The Committee did not wish to change the volume of the program. It only meant to make sure that the ships authorized (25 light cruisers, nine destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, five aircraft carriers) shall be laid down in five years and completed in eight years. Toward this end, the Committee...
...southern Democrat, found himself in an awkward position just before Christmas that year. He was far from home and had been so busy with his Field Artillery, which he organized and shepherded through the St. Mihiel offensive, the Meuse and the Argonne, that social duties slipped his mind. Probably there was no book of etiquette at hand in his spare military headquarters. Possibly it would not have helped him anyway. A delicate question faced him. A great Democrat, he had no Christmas present for the greatest Democrat, President Woodrow Wilson. The shops around Luxembourg were bare. He particularly needed...
Perhaps there is a weakness in the Harvard man as a democrat, by a repressed desire for the attentions of body servants. The Yale Toaster guaranteed not to burn the bread, realized it when he said that a Harvard man never sees his janitor except when he comes home in the morning to find him shining his shoes. But if he never sees his janitor and tasted disappointment in the dormitory hotel, which never know a luxurious fulfillment, Massachusetts Avenue still provides him with compensations. One regrats that McKinlock denied the Englishmen acquaintance with those knights in shining armor...
During the week, Governor Smith was called "outstanding Democrat of his day" by Roland Sletor Morris, Wilsonian ambassador to Japan (1917-21), and controller of at least half of Pennsylvania's 76 nominating votes at the Democratic convention...
...fill the U. S. Senate seat of the late Andrieus Aristieus Jones (TIME Jan. 2), Governor Dillon of New Mexico last week appointed Bronson Murray Cutting, a 39-year-old Harvard bachelor, Santa Fé citizen, Manhattan clubman. The late Senator Jones was a Democrat. The new Senator Cutting is a Republican-with a difference. Mr. Cutting admired Mr. Jones and supported him in politics. For 15 years Mr. Cutting has published the Santa Fé Daily New Mexican and El Neuvo Mexicano (weekly in Spanish) and with them has supported four Democratic and two Republican gubernatorial candidates...