Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indiana. American Legion bands were loudly present when Democrat Paul Vories McNutt, 41, onetime (1928-29) national commander of the Legion, took office at Indianapolis. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), grey-haired, autocratic Governor McNutt has an ambitious eye on the White House. A liberal, he favors a state income tax. repeal of the Indiana Dry Law, abolition of the Public Service Commission. Author Meredith Nicholson stagemanaged his outdoor inaugural...
Kansas. Republican Alfred Mossman ("Alf") Landon, 45, of Independence, saved his state from a goat gland government when he defeated "Dr." John R. Brinkley, blatant independent, radio medicine man, and simultaneously wrested the governorship away from Democrat Harry Woodring. In 1912 he was a rampant Progressive, is regular today. Oil made him rich. All in one week last year he won the party nomination for governor, became the father of a daughter and brought in a 500-bbl.-per-day oil well. As a boy he once held an old hen on her nest until she delivered the egg necessary...
Missouri. What sort of Governor Democrat Guy Brasneld Park, 60, will make, few citizens knew last week because he had been presented to them only three weeks before the election. When Nominee Francis Murray Wilson suddenly died in the midst of the campaign, Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City picked Judge. Park, Nominee Wilson's old friend and neighbor, off the circuit bench to fill his place...
Maine. Many a jobless citizen was deprived of voting for Democrat Louis Jefferson Brann last September because...
Ever since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election uneasy Mexicans have been reflecting that the last U. S. Democratic President sent U. S. Marines to seize Veracruz briefly in 1914, sent Brigadier General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing in 1916 to stalk Bandit Pancho Villa on Mexican soil. Last week Mexico City's independent Universal Grafico startled the Capital by printing the first Mexican attack on Democrat Roosevelt...