Word: democratized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Adopted a resolution unseating Augustus McCloskey, Democrat, seating Harry M. Wurzbach, Republican, as representative from the 14th Texas district, following an election contest...
...nominated Roger Brooke Taney of Maryland as Chief Justice to succeed John Marshall has a nominee for this highest judicial post been more severely flayed in the Senate than Mr. Hughes. Taney was opposed for just the reverse of the reasons advanced against Mr. Hughes. He was a Southern Democrat whom such Whigs as Clay and Webster denounced as "a tool of Jacksonian power"-just as Mr. Hughes was denounced as "a tool of Hooverian power." Progressives charged Mr. Hughes with favoring monopoly; Whigs excoriated Taney for opposing it. Both were conceded to be excellent lawyers. The Senate confirmed Taney...
...scene of this political augury was the Second Congressional District, carved crudely out of the counties of Hampshire and Hampden 39 years ago. In it lie bustly Springfield and somnolent Northampton, home of Citizen Calvin Coolidge.* This district has never sent a Democrat to the House. For 30 loyal years it blindly chose Frederick Huntington Gillett as its Representative until his sheer weight of service carried him to the Speakership, whence he went to the Senate. Last December its Congressman William Kirk Kaynor was killed in an airplane accident (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week it held a by-election...
...Result: Democrat Granfield, 31,170 votes; Republican Griggs, 23,749 votes...
Eighty thousand votes were cast in the Democratic primary which nominated and incidentally insured the election of Thomas Semmes Walmsley, red-headed regular, whose insurgent opponent was Francis Williams. Nominee Walmsley has been acting mayor in the absence of Arthur J. O'Keefe, monster (300 lb.) Mayor of New Orleans. The issue in the Democratic primary was last year's bloody trolley strike (TIME, July 15 et seq.). Accusing Candidate Walmsley of helping Public Service Corp. to break the strike, Candidate Williams begged workingmen to "kick the aristocracy out of City Hall." Candidate Walmsley talked of Law & Order...