Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full power of appointment and dismissal stepped Joseph Vincent McKee, president of the Board of Aldermen. Reason: Under the city charter a mayor who absents himself for more than 30 days loses his office. Mayor Walker sailed for Europe Aug. 3. If Mayor McKee were not a reliable Tammany Democrat, he could turn the Municipal government topsy-turvy before Mr. Walker returns late this month, gets back the job to which he was elected...
...young Samuel Seabury almost immediately took to politics. Aged 24, he was nominated for Alderman by the Citizens' Union. This he refused in order to campaign for Single Taxer Henry George, who died without knowing his cause ' was so disastrously lost. Subsequently he ran for office as a Democrat, a Republican, on Fusion and Progressive tickets. He was made a judge of the City Court in 1901, a judge of the Supreme Court (with Tammany backing) five years later, was elected to the Court of Appeals in 1914. For almost every office to which he was elected he had been...
Died. Representative Samuel C. Major, 62, of Fayette, Mo., U. S. Congressman (Democrat) for five terms, ninth Congressman to die since the first of the year (five were Democrats); of paralysis; in Fayette...
...prices, however, did not deter the tycoons of southwestern wheat production from harvesting crops larger than ever. By far the biggest wheat farmer in Texas is Hickman Price, oldtime newsman (New York Sun, Nashville Democrat) who three years ago gave up a $50,000 per year job with Fox Film to apply modern industrial methods to husbandry in the Panhandle. Last year smart, efficient Mr. Price harvested 17,000 acres in Deaf Smith, Castro and Swisher counties. Last week he was getting in a 500,000-bu. crop from 23,000 acres. Next year he plans to expand...
...crested, choleric of complexion, a cigar clamped in the corner of his axe-mark mouth, he will glory in fighting once more "for the People." For whatever the merits of the two sides may be, with Lawyer Reed's party's reputation at slake locally (Governor Woodring is a Democrat in Republican Kansas) and with presidential nominations nearing, the $12,000,000 damage suits will ultimately be overshadowed by the larger issue of the fight?between the People and Monopoly...