Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barkley Bill). His measure, a forerunner of the Railway Labor Act, was not passed but the vote on it a decade ago still serves organized Labor as a political index to determine its Congressional friends and foes. In 1926 he was elected to the Senate where as an orthodox Democrat he took his place in the moderate Southern wing. A smart politician, he does the little things that help him in Kentucky. Though he opposed full payment of the Bonus now, he softened the enmity of veterans by authoring a bill waiving the requirement that their certificates must have been...
Impartial observers rate him thus: a homespun Senator above the average in industry and energy; a fair legislator with 20 years' experience behind him; an economic conservative friendly to Labor; an influential Democrat, irregular only on the tariff, who could play an important part in a Democratic administration. His term expires March...
...Louisiana." Huey Long likes to brag. His enemies will agree that he is no fool but they will also contend that his smartness is far from admirable. An incredible cross between Iowa's Brookhart, New York City's Jimmy Walker and Chicago's Big Bill Thompson, Democrat Long has developed a political technique in which he is too intelligent to believe himself. Impervious to insult, he knows the trick of playing politics in its rawest, crudest form and he plays it with a vim, dash and audacity that stagger men with public sensibilities...
...Author- Midwest Jeffersonian Democrat, with little sympathy for Adams' politics, Biographer Clark remarks: "He was such an interesting old coot I had a fine time writing his life" (TIME, Jan. 25). He reports that there have been fewer biographies of Adams "than of almost any great American." Disregarding James Truslow Adams' The Adams Family (TIME, June 16, 1930), of which he made no mention in his bibliography, he says his is the first biography of John Quincy Adams in 50 years...
...Duff" Duffield was graduated the same year as the late Author Jesse Lynch Williams, the late Georgia Publisher Boudre Phinizy, Alonzo Church, vice-chancellor of New Jersey, Dr. Evan Evans, rich Manhattan physician. Lawyer Theodore Wilson Morris Jr., partner of Democrat John William Davis, and Varnum Lansing ("Wilkie") Collins, Princeton's Secretary. "Duff" was celebrated for an oration called "Scotch Granite," extolling Princeton's early President John Witherspoon. With generous gestures and booming voice, he delivered "Scotch Granite" whenever asked, passing it off many a time as extemporaneous. Because Edward Duffield's large bulk was mounted heavily upon large feet...