Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impartial newsman, not by an unboastful Democrat, not by a man from Mars was this analysis and forecast of the November elections made last week. The speaker was none other than the arch-Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Congressman Nicholas Longworth of the First (Cincinnati) Ohio District. A political realist with an uncommon sense of election drifts, he made the above remarks in an interview to newshawks in Washington. His statement made other G. O. P. leaders wriggle and squirm with acute pain. But a few hours later Speaker Longworth atoned for his frankness, proved himself still...
Pennsylvania tycoons, normally Republican, considered Nominee Hemphill "right" on this all-important economic issue. Because the liberal party had also given Mr. Hemphill its gubernatorial nomination, disaffected Republicans could, with a clear political conscience, support him as an independent rather than as a Democrat...
Kentucky-born Jouett Shouse, chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee, has sporting instincts. He bets on horse-races and elections. Often he loses. His efforts this year to win the House of Representatives for his party is a man-sized political gamble on which wagers will be made. Last week the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals revealed Democrat Shouse's efforts to deduct his betting losses from his back income tax returns...
...Shouse's contention had been that, if Democrat Davis had carried Maryland, he (Shouse) would have been taxed on his won bet. The arch-Democratic New York World observed: "Ah, now we have it! Mr. Shouse, of course, bet on the Democratic candidate. How could a Republican Treasury Department regard such a transaction as entered into for profit...
...complete his new Tariff Commission President Hoover appointed Lincoln Dixon, 70, of Indiana as its third Democrat. Mr. Dixon, like two other commissioners, was a member of the old commission that Congress put out of business. ¶Into the White House went Dwight Whitney Morrow with his resignation as Ambassador to Mexico tucked in his pocket. President Hoover asked him to stay to luncheon, talked about Mexican affairs. Not until his resignation was accepted did Republican Senatorial Nominee Morrow purpose to begin his New Jersey campaign...