Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly three months the homely authority of John Nance ("Jack") Garner has kept the Democratic House of Representatives trotting along peacefully behind President Hoover's relief measures. Many a fighting Democrat was irked at this political docility. The President's reorganization proposal came as a signal for the House to break and run on its own. Democratic leaders got hold of advance copies of the President's message, announced, just one day before its reading in the House, their own plans for a survey of the executive Government to effect economies. When grizzled old Speaker Garner officially...
Charles Robert Crisp of Georgia, son of the late great Charles Frederick Crisp, Speaker of the House. With the reputation of being the Democratic "brains" on the committee, Congressman Crisp last week took the House floor, delivered a stirring warning to his colleagues and to the country on the tax burdens ahead: "I have burned every bridge behind me. No matter what the personal political consequences may be, I'm going to advocate levying sufficient taxes to balance the budget. It means nothing to the United States whether I remain in Congress or not but it means much...
...made by the retirement of Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (TIME, Jan. 25). Senatorial Insurgents, Republicans and Demo-crats alike, unanimously applauded the choice. In making the appointment, which only a miracle could prevent the Senate from confirming, the President disregarded party and geographical distinctions. Judge Cardozo is a Democrat, although he has the support of both parties in his State, and will be the third New York member of the nation's highest tribunal. The others are Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone.* The fact that the Hoover political family also contains...
Hasiv observers two weeks and although realizing the fitness of Judge Cardozo, thought that as a Jew, a New Yorker, and a liberal Democrat he could expect little consideration from a conservative Republican President. From a religious, sectional, and political point of view, it seemed that President Hoover, by naming Cardozo would be sacrificing a great deal to the national interest. As there has been little reason to expect subtlety from President Hoover, the first impulse is to commend him for his altruism...
...there arose another Gracchus called Gaius, a bolder, more able man, who became the second great democrat. He hearkened to the works of his brother and did likewise. He lifted up the poor and laid low the rich until at last the fathers at Rome rose up at his impudence and declared him "a public enemy." A mob sought him out in anger and found across the river in the grove of Furrina, Gaius' body lying beside his slave...