Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would ride officially in the Speaker's limousine after March 4, 1931 neither Republican Longworth nor Democrat Garner nor anyone else knew for sure because the elections which made the 7 2nd Congress had failed to produce an incontestable House ma jority (218 seats) for either party. As the first hasty ballot-count came to an end throughout the land, it appeared that the voters had achieved that rarest of results, a numerically exact tie in the House. The balance was hardly less close in the Senate where the Vice President's vote might be invoked to break a deadlock...
Arizona. Oldtime Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt was chosen Governor for the seventh time (missing only three terms) since Arizona became a State...
Pennsylvania. "Wholehearted" was perhaps not the word for the support which the Mellons gave Gifford Pinchot, though it accurately described the non-support he got from Philadelphia's Boss Vare and Railroader William Wallace Atterbury. For weeks it had seemed that John M. Hemphill, a Democrat-"Liberal" with Beer, Business and a little black toothbrush on his lips, would be the anointed one and make Pennsylvania history. Yet when Allegheny County's (the Mellons') votes were counted, there were 70,000 extra for Pinchot?the backlog of his 50,000 statewide majority?and Theodore Roosevelt's forester was returned...
California. San Francisco's James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph was promoted from "perpetual" mayor to governor-elect by a thumping 2 to 1 majority over Democrat Milton K. Young (not to be confused with Republican Clement Calhoun Young, present Governor...
...Author. Dr. Browne, a Democrat, describes himself on the title-page as "sometime Mayor of Princeton; onetime Member of Congress; A. M., M. D., and some other things, but primarily interested in cookery." Retired to private life by a Republican landslide, he cultivates Lucullus's garden...