Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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State. As the master of a solid bloc of faithful votes. Tom Pendergast has long been the No. 1 Democrat of his State. But in 1932 St. Louis' Bennett Champ Clark went to the Senate without his help and Boss Pendergast has since had to sign a working agreement to claim patronage only in the western half of the State. The truce has lately been strained, to the dis pleasure of Tom Pendergast. First strain came when young Maurice Milligan, whose Brother Jacob was defeated by Pendergast's Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney...
Although Boss Pendergast announced after the 1936 campaign that active management of his machine would thenceforth rest in the hands of Nephew James Michael Pendergast, he has by no means relinquished his duties as policy maker. Day after last week's election, Democrat Pendergast, after exclaiming that "this is a better tonic than a carload of medicine," indicated that he might be a more stub born obstacle to Democrats Clark and Roosevelt than optimists might think. Having invited reporters into his office for one of his rare interviews, the old boss announced that he was going on the warpath...
Edwin J. Paxton Jr., 25, associate editor, Paducah Sun-Democrat...
Edwin J. Paxton, Jr., 25, chief editorial writer and associate editor of the Paducah (Kentucky) Sun-Democrat. Formerly a student at the University of Miami, he will concentrate in social sciences for further editorial training...
...rabidly pro-Roosevelt New York Post this voice was the "voice of liberalism; the platform is that of Coolidge." Actually it was the typical voice of the old-line Democrat, the Democrat who would like, but does not dare, to say the same things on the Senate floor. For the Baruch testimony was by no means a one-way damnation. Asked if he thought business had done its share, the white-haired old financier replied: "Business has not cleaned up its own stable, it has not met the Government people in the fullest spirit of co-operation." Eloquently he urged...