Word: democratized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Herewith is Subscriber Blake's photograph. Governor-elect Harry Woodring. first Democrat to win the governorship in Kansas since 1922, was born in Elk City in 1889. Only boy in a family of several girls, he early learned crocheting, a feat much stressed by his political opponents in the recent campaign. However, his pop corn venture, his banking success, his Tank Corps experience proved him man enough to be elected State head of the American Legion. Thus both he and Republican Frank ("Chief") Haucke, another onetime State Legion head, gained local prominence. Gubernatorial Candi date Woodring defeated Candidate Haucke...
...Senate (see p. 8). ¶ Agreed to the $116,000,000 Unemployment Relief conference report; sent it to it to the Senate (see p. 8). ¶ Passed the $213,043,702 Department of Agriculture appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Adopted a resolution seating Democrat Louis Ludlow of Indiana, whose election had been contested by Republican Ralph Eugene Updike. ¶ Adjourned until...
...broader investigation, the Citizen's Union raised $13,000. By last week this fund had been virtually exhausted. And Attorney General Ward goes out of office Jan. 1. Nevertheless, Prosecutor Todd announced he would continue his work under Attorney General-elect John J. Bennett Jr., a Democrat. Also begun by Governor Roosevelt to silence critics of Tammany corruption was an investigation of the lower courts of Manhattan & The Bronx by the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court. Appointed as referee was Justice Samuel Seabury, longtime Tammany foe. Referee Seabury named small, Austrian-born Isidor Jacob Kresel...
POLITICAL NOTES When is a Democrat...
Much to the surprise of many a regular North Carolina Democrat, the Senate last week confirmed (47-to-11; the appointment of Frank R. McNinch, a 1928 North Carolina Hoovercrat, to be a Democratic member of the reorganized Federal Power Commission. Approved at the same time were the four other commissioners: Chairman George Otis Smith, Ralph B. Williamson, Marcel Garsaud, Claude L. Draper. The McNinch appointment precipitated a great deal of senatorial controversy as to just what constitutes a Democrat. Five Democratic members of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee disapproved Appointee McNinch's Democracy, voted against recommending his confirmation...