Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are two non-Democratic Governors: Philip La Follette of Wisconsin and Hjalmar Petersen, who succeeded the late Floyd Olson, of Minnesota. Both La Follette and the heirs of Olson are allies of the New Deal.* In each of the other 37 States a Democrat sits in the Governor's chair. By no means, however, does the presence of a Democrat in a State capitol mean that the State will fall without fuss into the New Deal's lap Nov. 3. In half a dozen politically confused States like Ohio, Colorado, Nebraska, Democratic Governors are no assets...
...carry New York, which is normally Republican, a Democrat has to roll up a large majority in New York City. Tammany loves neither Mr. Farley nor the New Deal, but Herbert Lehman is a popular Governor. So, although he was jeopardizing his banking business to which he earnestly wishes to return, Herbert Lehman last week went down the line for his personal friend Franklin Roosevelt, not only accepted renomination but promised if he were re-elected to serve out his full term without resigning...
Political theory receives marked attention, for when the first of these articles were written, the swing to dictatorship in Europe was stirring alarm, or sometimes enthusiasm, in America. Mr. Lippmann thinks, doubtless, more in economic than in political terms; and, convinced democrat though he is, he realizes that democratic civilization, is something of a luxury, that will not work without a decent measure of security for nations as well as individuals...
Thus ended the honeymoon-campaign tour of Democrat Ruth Bryan Owen, retired U. S. Minister to the Court of King Christian of Denmark and Captain Boerge Rohde of His Danish Majesty's Life Guards...
...president for the coming year is Tom K. Smith of St. Louis' Boatmen's National Bank. Banker Smith is unlikely to depart from Mr. Fleming's policy of friendship with a Democratic Administration. A Democrat himself, he served for a while under Secretary Morgenthau as a Treasury adviser. White-haired, ruddy well-brushed President Smith wears his Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain, said last week: "I am convinced that there is no problem in banking confronting us today which research, education and co-operation cannot solve. They are the bulwarks upon which I base...