Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday morning he was back in West Middlesex to go to church with his uncle William T. Mossman, pressagent of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., in the old red brick Methodist Church where his grandfather, the Rev. William H. Mossman, once was pastor. The Rev. Henry G. Shilling (a registered Democrat who is going to vote for Landon) preached for 40 minutes. Having put a dollar bill in the collection, Nominee Landon departed for Sunday dinner with his great-aunt, his old nurse "Aunt" Mary Baird and others who cared for him in infancy. Finally he went to the parsonage...
...Manhattan Colonel Roscoe Conkling, descendant of the late Senator, and Mrs. Helen Walker Roman, niece of "The Man From Maine," announced that they were chairman and vice chairman respectively of a new organization calling itself the Progressive Republican Committee which will stump, not for Republican Nominee Landon, but for Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Last week Florida Democrats held a special primary to pick a successor to its other lately deceased Senator, Park Trammell. The choice was between onetime Governor Doyle Elam Carlton of Tampa, claiming the support of Florida's labor vote, and Charles Oscar Andrews, a onetime circuit judge, who had never made a State-wide campaign before and whose chances of victory were ridiculed by the Press. But Democrat Andrews not only had the endorsement of Florida's Convention of Townsend Clubs, but led all other candidates in his devotion to Townsendism. When the votes were counted, Townsendite Andrews...
...fifth-floor Founders Room of Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel assembled last week a group of Democrats burning to pronounce a malediction on the New Deal. They included Missouri's onetime Senator James A. Reed, Woodrow Wilson's onetime Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, Massachusetts' onetime Governor Joseph B. Ely, Col. Henry Breckenridge, who ran this year in many a primary as an anti-Roosevelt Democrat, Joseph W. Bailey Jr., son of Texas' late great Senator, some twoscore political has-beens. Virtually every anti-Roosevelt Democrat who still has political ambitions stayed discreetly away...
...Democrat Reed, rheumatic and weak from age (74) and rage, had a speech in his system for which he needed an audience. Democrat Ely had a hope in his bosom that the meeting might openly come out for Landon. The emotional needs of the others were vague but earnest, so earnest that, although in the sumptuous suite where they were assembled a private bar had been provided, they were too busy to patronize...