Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tennis match, golf game or cross country run, for the reason that he has had no taste or training for the latter trinity. The President knows he is not a bronco buster, and further knows that he is needed as President of the United States. While I am a Democrat I have always admired Coolidge's Democracy (not political) and think he has made a wonderful President. Honest in everything. Self-seeking in nothing, perhaps a bit slow in making up his mind, which is not a bad fault. It makes the ordinary citizen rather tired to find people...
Governor Adam McMullen, Nebraska: "Governor Ritchie is a man of presidential timber." (Governor McMullen is a Republican; Governor Ritchie, a Democrat...
Last week, for instance, Senator Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi announced that taxes should be reduced by no less than $500,000,000. Democrat Harrison is a member of the Senate Finance Committee and so, in a position to make his views felt. Meanwhile Republican Senator Reed Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, said that a reduction of more than $300,000,000 would be unsafe. Both Senators Harrison and Smoot agreed on one point-the desirability of calling a special session of Congress in October. Some weeks ago Senator Smoot visited President Coolidge (then in Washington) and announced that...
...Theodore Wallen, of the New York Herald Tribune staff, big, fat and slick looking? He was so described last week by Governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota, in an interview published in the New York Times. The Governor, a Democrat, felt that he had been misquoted by Mr. Wallen, who had attributed to him a "feeling" that President Coolidge would be reelected...
...performed on the State Lodge porch while, despatches reported, "many tourists stopped to gaze at the sight." ¶ Prudence Prim, pet white collie of Mrs. Coolidge, died at Fort Meade, S. Dak. Cause: Distemper with complications. ¶Inasmuch as President Coolidge usually does not attend meetings at which a Democrat is the principal speaker, his ears must last week have heard strange sounds and subversive doctrine. For, attending a farmers' meeting at Ardmore, S. Dak., the President listened while Democratic Governor Bulow of South Dakota assailed the Republican tariff. The Governor, tall, lean, ruddy complexioned, with a long, thin...