Word: democratized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fenway--"The Millonaire". George Arliss, the aristocrat of the screen turns democrat, in a filling station milieu...
Republican Harry Ephraim Rowbottom of Evansville, onetime tailor and accountant, Mason, Moose, Eagle and Shriner, was elected to the House of Representatives from the First Indiana District in 1924. Last November a Democrat beat him for reelection. The Rowbottom campaign fund was in the red. As a "lame duck," he continued to get small postal jobs for friends, took their money as contributions to his deficit. For this he was caught, indicted. On trial at Evansville last week he admitted that one Walter Ayer had given him $750 and that he had recom- mended Ayer's son Gresham...
...vacancy arises for a judge's position. The district leader gets a chance to recommend a man for the position at $25,000 per year for 14 years. If he is a Democrat here or a Republican in Philadelphia he is sure of reelection, so he practically has the position until he retires for age. If somebody offered you a thing like that, would you just say 'Thank you' and not offer that person a present? Would you really be such a rotter...
Addressing the Rochester (N. Y.) Chamber of Commerce last week, Arthur Brisbane, Hearst colyumist, had this to say about Alfred Emanuel Smith, long-time Hearst foe: "Any Democrat nominated [for President in 1932] in opposition to the wishes of Smith will be defeated. Smith is the head of the Democratic party in America. There is only one real live issue before the people and that is Prohibi- tion. Prohibition of itself isn't enough, but the corruption it has encouraged among our police is the outrage...
...Seat. Of prime political importance last week was a House successor to Longworth from the Cincinnati district. If a Democrat is elected?and one came within 3,000 votes of it last November? the next House would be tied at 217, with one Farmer-Laborite. Immediately the Press began to nominate Mrs. Longworth for the place. The daughter of a President, she is smart, politically-minded. Her election would maintain the House's "widow tradition."* But her brother Archie scouted the notion that she would ever accept political office. Besides, most Cincinnati Republicans consider her something of an outsider; they...