Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maine's Republicans pleased President Hoover but were rewarded by no open endorsement when they chose Representative Wallace Humphrey White Jr., grandson and onetime secretary of the late Senator William Pierce Frye, to run for the Senate against Democrat Frank H. Haskell. Defeated Republican candidates: onetime Governor Ralph Owen Brewster, Wet Dugald Blair Dewar...
Times have changed. When gruff, penetrating Herr Wolff barked, "You are the Fascist regime, we a democracy!", Il Duce bridled, made an answer of utmost significance : "I am a democrat [pause] that is, an authoritarian democrat."* As though he found his new-coined phrase especially apt, Il Duce reintroduced it during the argument again and again. "We are creating moral order, not police order," he added earnestly. "We are not reactionaries: quite the contrary." A little plaintively, knowing well that he will always be considered ruthless, the Dictator spoke at last of his penal islands (notorious as "Devil...
When accounts of the "You-Go-And-Fry" dinner were later read to the Senate by a playful Democrat, Vice President Curtis in his high chair grinned sheepishly, rubbed his hand over his red face. Mrs. Pratt said: "I'll admit the joke was on me." Secretary Davis, fresh from his Pennsylvania campaign for the Senate where he learned that a politician must be ready to praise anybody, dead or alive, on a moment's notice, felt his good nature had been imposed upon. The New York World spoke of a "sleazy kind of fawning" by public...
...news value? The item appears on Page 5 of a twenty-six page newspaper, under 'Miscellaneous News Items.' The man's name is not even mentioned. Wouldn't an American paper give this item a front-page position with a headline like this, 'Cow Shoots Man?" --St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
Commented Dr. Alexander Copeland Millar, editor of the Arkansas Methodist and, like Bishop Cannon a Hoover Democrat : "We cannot go back on the greatest Prohibition leader in the world, for if we did, the devils in Hell would shout with lee and the angels in Heaven would weep...