Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PLEASE GIVE YOUR NORTH CAROLINA READERS A PEN PICTURE AND ESTIMATE OF SENATOR F M SIMMONS AND HIS RECORD AS A DEMOCRAT AND LEGISLATOR FOR GODS SAKE "DO" HIM IN AN EARLY ISSUE...
...University), commenced the practice of law at New Bern at 21. The same year he married Eliza Humphrey of Goldsboro. Aged 32, he was elected to the House of Representatives, soth Congress, for one unimportant term (1887-89). In 1892 when Populism threatened, he was made head of the Democratic State Executive Committee, held the Weaver vote down to 44,000. His reward came when President Cleveland named him Collector of Internal Revenue for North Carolina's Eastern district (1893-97). It was as the undisputed boss Democrat of the State, a rank he held till 1928, that...
...threat of a Democrat filibuster against the Senate's final acceptance of a patchwork measure loomed when Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison exclaimed: "It'll be a long time before you get this Bill. I'd want nothing better than the responsibility for killing this legislation...
...West Branch, Iowa. Birthplace "of President Hoover, dropped from 688 to 651. A Democrat's comment: "Probably all 37 went to Washington to work for the Government...
...Senate has rejected Judge Parker who has been a storm cearer in the question of filling the Supreme Court chair left vacant by the late Justice Sanford. Party lines have been more tenuous than they were in the good days when a Republican lived on bread and beer a Democrat lived on bread and beer and both fought for hours about the tariff...