Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came Franklin Roosevelt's turn to compare himself to a great President and, being a good Democrat, he picked Andrew Jackson. The occasion was the Democratic Party's Jackson Day Dinner in Washington. The meal cost 2,000 diners $50 per plate- $5 for food and $45 for the Party's campaign chest. When he had eaten tomato stuffed with lobster, diamondbacked terrapin soup, breast of capon, hearts of palm salad and other things, the 32nd President of the U. S. arose and broadcast as follows on the 7th President...
Election to a state senatorship from his native Vermont in 1929 spelled the doom of in 1935 of both DEmocratic and Republican machines in the state. The lieutenant governorship was his in 1931. He shortly broke with his friend, Ruby Laffoon, governor an dKentucky Coon creator. In Governor Laffoon's absence he pushed through a law requiring the selection of a public national candidate by primary, not party convention. By fortuitous and planned maneuvering, he was rollered to the governorship in November. He was not an old-line Democratic choice, but he was a Democrat and he endorsed President Roosevelt...
Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, which share a Congressional district in Michigan, last week elected a new Representative to succeed Henry M. Kimball who died last October.* Since Democrats have a House majority of 205 seats it made no national difference whether a Democrat or a Republican was elected. Yet rare indeed was the Congressman who failed to take notice of last week's Michigan returns, and when the Republican nominee was elected many a Republican and many a Democrat quaked miserably. The significance of the Michigan election was that it was the first victory of a candidate east...
...Louisiana "Kingfish" would probably have been blind Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. He was so unmeasured in his attacks on President Roosevelt, his wife and family, that even the sternest opponents of the New Deal shivered. But just as Senators were shocked by the assassination of Democrat Huey Long, so last week they were shocked by the tragedy that befell Republican Tom Schall...
...edicts an intimate part of the daily life of every man, woman & child in the land. By 1920 Mr. Hoover bulked large enough in the public mind to be discussed seriously for the Presidency despite the fact that he could not make up his mind whether he was a Democrat or a Republican...