Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Woollen. Thomas Taggart, boss Democrat of Indiana, likes to take his delegates to the national conventions lined up behind one Indianian whom they more or less seriously advance for nomination. Later he swings their votes in line behind some other section's candidate. But there is always the chance that the Indiana man will be one of the men and bring glory to Indiana and Boss Taggart...
...World mistakenly said last week, Senator James E. Watson. Opposing Senator Watson last autumn was Democrat Albert Stump...
...that most women now in Congress owe their position to being widows or wives of onetime Congressmen, not to their own merits; that women in Washington "pull the strings of power"-all this said Miss Vera Bloom last week in Washington. Miss Bloom, daughter of Congressman Sol Bloom, Democrat of New York, spoke at the second world welfare conference of the Women's Universal Alliance. Miss Bloom also said: "Mrs. Coolidge is worth $1,000,000 a year to the Republican Party. Her grace and charm are real assets in the White House and contribute much to the prestige...
Married. Mrs. Izetta Jewell Brown, who made the seconding speech in the nominating for President of the U. S. Democrat John W. Davis in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, in 1924; to Dean Hugh Miller, of Union College; in Washington, in a friend's walled garden...
Editor George R. Dale of the Post-Democrat fared worse. A fugitive from indictment for criminally libeling Judge Dearth, by saying that His Honor's maladministration of justice was morally responsible for a pair of murders, Editor Dale had been abiding across the state line, in Ohio. But last week his daughter fell ill. He went home, was jailed. A synopsis of future chapters in Indiana's biggest excitement in months, at the bottom of which lies war between the friends and foes of Prohibition, will doubtless include further encounters between an outrageously outspoken journalist and a spokesman...