Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrat Dies recently looked into the automobile sit-down strikes of 1937 in Michigan. The committee and its witnesses lit into C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America as Communist-ridden lawbreakers, into Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy as a weakling official who condoned Communist sit-down tactics...
Circuit Judge Paul V. Gadola of Flint, whose contempt citations against General Motors strikers were ignored at the Governor's order in 1937, testified with much heat. Whereupon Representative Harold G. Mosier of Ohio, who was defeated by C. I. O. pressure in the recent Democratic primary, addressed the judge: ''Let's get this matter straight. Just to show there was no politics in it, Governor Murphy is a Democrat and you are a Democrat.'' "I am not," cried Judge Gadola. "I am a Republican! Until this New Deal coattail parade started, there wasn...
Jesse Stuart's first editorial got him in mighty serious trouble. Up for re-election this week is Congressman Joe Bates, Democrat and political boss of Greenup County. Last month, in the Russell Times, Republican Jesse Stuart launched a violent attack on Congressman Bates, comparing him to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin and declaring: "In person, he is slow-going and physically lazy - but Brother, when he cracks the whip . . . he means business...
Publisher Vann gave as his reason for thus switching allegiance the fact that his good friend and patron, Senator Guffey, had been demoted to No. 2 Democrat in Pennsylvania when David L. Lawrence was put in ahead of him as State Chairman. Beating the Jones-Earle ticket would restore Senator Guffey as Pennsylvania's No. 1 Democrat and patronage dispenser. At this announcement, Senator Guffey declared himself shocked and grieved. He said Publisher Vann's reasoning was "deceitful and dishonest." He professed his utter loyalty to the Jones-Earle ticket. He protested that it was "not through Guffey...
...early as 1930 Publisher Vann sensed the changing political wind, shifted from Republican to Democrat. His subsequent rise under the wing of Senator Guffey lasted until two years ago when, at the Philadelphia national convention, Jim Farley learned that many a Negro preacher disapproved of Publisher Vann. Named in his place to lead the campaign of 1936 among Negroes was his distinguished friend, Lawyer Julian D. Rainey of Boston...