Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lone Negro member of the 71st Congress will be the lone Negro member of the 72nd. No Democrat was strong enough to oust Republican Representative Oscar De Priest, pride of Chicago's "Black Belt...
...only new woman to gain admission to Congress was Effie Gene Locke Wingo, widow of Representative Otis Theodore Wingo, Arkansas Democrat, who died during the campaign. As a double mark of chivalry both parties gave Widow Wingo their nominations...
...Smile, Senator, smile." begged news cameramen as Democrat Lewis received the returns that sent him again to the Senate (he was there through Wilson's time). Retorted he: "I'm not in the vaudeville business. This is a serious matter. I'm not exulting over the defeat of a woman. Mrs. McCormick made a valorous fight." Senator-elect Lewis stopped, coughed, explained a bug had flown down his throat, left it sore...
Ohio. A particularly. hard blow to President Hoover, the Republican National Committee and the Anti-Saloon League of America was the defeat of Dry Republican Senator (by appointment) Roscoe Conkling McCulloch by Wet Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley. Senator McCulloch's fuss-budgety little colleague, Senator Simeon Davison Fess dropped his duties as G. O. P. national chairman to campaign himself hoarse for the Republican ticket. Senator-elect Bulkley (whose friends already talk loudly of him as a presidential possibility) won urban votes largely by a demand for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. His Wetness pulled his Dry friend George...
...rolled up so vast a lead? more than 715.000 votes?as Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt had over Charles Henry Tuttle of the increasingly disorganized New York G. O. P. The figures increased the validity, if not the valence, of Governor Roosevelt's ambition to be No. 1 U. S. Democrat...