Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appointed by the President as No. 2 man on the new Tariff Commission was Thomas Walker Page, Virginia Democrat, oldtime tariff economist who served (1911-12) on President Taft's Tariff Board, on President Wilson's Tariff Commission, rose to be chairman...
...Clement Calhoun Young, Mayor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of San Francisco, District Attorney Buron Fitts of Los Angeles County. Excitement was heightened by the Republicans' virtual knowledge that their nominee would be California's next Governor after an easy victory in November over Milton K. Young, Democrat...
...Nominee Pinchot had other and larger troubles lying ahead of him last week. A militant Dry, he will oppose Democratic .Nominee John M. Hemphill, militant Wet, in the November election. Normally a Democrat's chances in Penn's Woods are negligible. This year, however, Boss Vare's Philadelphia G. O. P., smarting under its primary defeat and nursing old grudges, is reported ready to ditch Nominee Pinchot and support Nominee Hemphill sufficiently to bring him within striking distance of Harrisburg...
...vast majority of voters are sick and tired of election corruption in Philadelphia. . . . Certain disgruntled political leaders ... are refusing to abide by the rules of the game and accept the decision of the voters in the Republican primary. . . . They propose to bring about the election of a Wet Democrat instead of the Republican nominee. . . . The defection of these masqueraders is neither respectable nor important." Mr. Brown at the rally leaped up to defend Philadelphia, insisted 100.000 primary votes had been stolen from him, was booed. So disorderly and disunited was the meeting that State Chairman Edward Martin announced that...
Left. By the late James Duval Phelan (died Aug. 7), California Democrat, one-time (1897-1902) Mayor of San Francisco, onetime (1915-21) U. S. Senator; upwards of $10,000,000. Bequests: to the James Duval Phelan Foundation and other San Francisco institutions, $4,000,000; to Gertrude Atherton, "California's great authoress," $20,000, and $5,000 each to her four children and grandchildren; to Helen Newington Wills Moody, $20,000 and valuable works of art "in appreciation of her winning the tennis championship for California"; to many a friend in the U. S., South America and England...