Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 43 minutes "reconsideration," the House flouted the President by repassing the Bonus Loan Bill to the tune of 328-to-79, a surplus of 56 votes over the required two-thirds majority. Not a single Democrat was among the 79 who supported the President...
...Major of Artillery, family friend of Andrew Mellon and fellow-Pittsburgher. With shoulders humped, intense voice rasping, Senator Reed hammered away. But as he expected, his words changed not a single ballot. By the impressive vote of 72-10-12 the Senate passed H. R. 17054. Not one Democrat voted against it. The twelve anti-Bonus Republicans were: Borah, Fess, Goff, Hastings, Hebert, Metcalf, Morrow, Moses, Phipps, Reed, Smoot, Walcott...
...Democrat Owen D. Young's testimony on the Bonus fortnight ago convinced Congressman Bacharach that it was politically necessary for the Republicans to act. Adopting the "Young Plan" of increased loans but rejecting the proposal to limit them only to needy veterans, he drafted H. R. 17054, got it by the Ways & Means Committee (17-to-4) to the House floor where Speaker Longworth helped him to pass it by a suspension of the Rules...
...incident in a Loop theatre last week. The Mayor boomed out his usual nonsensical speech, twirled his halter, cried: "I wear no man's halter around my neck but thank God, I've got one real friend in the newspaper business. He's a Democrat and his name is William Randolph Hearst."* Up rose a heckler to shout: "And he's got his halter around your neck, you lying skunk, Bill Thomp son." Eggs began to splatter over the stage...
...public. Republican Representative Crowther declared that Mr. Young was "the only witness who showed any tinge of human interest." The Press began to headline the "Young Plan," much to the concern of Republicans who hated to see so great a chunk of political capital being passed to a Democrat. Actually Mr. Young had proposed nothing new or original. The idea of upping Bonus loans was advocated last month by Director Hines of the Veterans' Bureau as the "least undesirable" plan for aiding the jobless ex-soldiery. Chairman Johnson of the House Veterans' Committee had suggested much the same thing months...