Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the Purge failed and showed Democratic Senators that it is safe to have minds of their own, a paramount question has been: will non-New Deal Democrats attempt to unhorse Kentucky's plodding, obedient "Dear Alben" Barkley as Majority Leader? To do so would in effect amount to purging the Senate of Roosevelt leadership. Last week, in an otherwise unimportant newspaper spat between Montana's utterly independent Democrat Burton K. Wheeler and New Jersey's obedient Democrat William Smathers, came an answer. Declaring that there would be no attempted Barkley ouster, Mr. Wheeler said...
...California's bumblingly conservative Governor Merriam is, curiously, the only State office candidate officially endorsed by T. N. R. P. Reason: he has done homage to the Plan in his desperate fight against Democrat Culbert Olson and "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday...
...voices of politicians grew loud in the land, crowding even swing off the air, radio listeners last week did not hear two opponents debating (but not broadcasting) with poise and dignity from one platform in Marietta, Ohio. Republican Robert Alphonso Taft and Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley had agreed, while fighting for the latter's Senate seat, to hold at least six debates in the good old Lincoln-Douglas tradition...
Davis and Judge Arthur H. James (for Governor) capitalizing this issue, Chief Democrat Roosevelt's help was sorely needed to prevent a return of pivotal Pennsylvania to the Republican column...
...Greenup, Ky., Hillbilly Poet Jesse Hilton Stuart (The Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow) got in a political argument with Constable Amos Allen, Democrat, said he was beaten over the head while his back was turned, threatened to leave the State for good...