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Word: democratized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rival candidates. Both kept pretty much to their staterooms. But their friends and supporters lobbied all over the train keeping a jealous eye on one another. The Republicans aboard, led by Senators Vandenberg and Bridges, looked on happily. The rest, even Senator La Follette who is not a Democrat but a Progressive, were engrossed in serious business, too engrossed even for much poker or whiskey, the customary relaxations of political funeral trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Caucus on Wheels | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Garland Sevier Ferguson Jr., 59, a North Carolina Democrat who was appointed by Calvin Coolidge and reappointed by President Roosevelt though rated the most conservative member of the commission. Much of his legal experience was gained as a lawyer for Southern Ry. In the general division of FTC duties, tall, baldish, able Mr. Ferguson tends to trials and examinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FTC | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Last week a repeal bill, proposed by Democrat Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, reached the floor of the House. In Committee of the Whole, over the protests of women members of both parties, Democrat John J. Cochran of St. Louis succeeded in amending it so as to tighten instead of repeal the antimarriage clause. But final action was taken by the House itself. To the surprise and jubilation of the repeal forces the Cochran amendment was rejected. Straight repeal was voted, 203-to-129, and the bill was sent to the Senate, where its passage was expected. Broad smiles spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Legal Love | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...from indifferent about the election results was the small but tightly-knit Social Democrat Party which led the opposition to President Cárdenas. Thundered Social Democrat Leader Judge Prieto Laurens: "The official party as usual used every means to assure its triumph. . . . A majority of the voting booths were placed in homes of Government party leaders and a mere 10% of the eligible voters was allowed to ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Election | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...mostly in New York State. By its terms Hearst cleared out of Rochester, where he had been losing $125,000 a year and where he once gave away automobiles to lure circulation, leaving Gannett a virtual monopoly in that city with his evening Times-Union and morning and Sunday Democrat & Chronicle. Hearst's Rochester employes, out of jobs, were attempting at week's end to raise money to start a new paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst Steps Nos. 2 & 3 | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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