Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Host Roosevelt confided his bet on the Louis-Galento fight. Wind tipped a vase of flowers and water into Herbert Lehman's lap, to the confusion of Hostess Eleanor Roosevelt. For the cameras and perhaps for solace, Democrats Stark (Missouri), Cochran (Nebraska) and Lehman ganged up with the President. At the President's feet, beaming innocently, sat a G. O. P. Governor's daughter, Anne Vanderbilt of Rhode Island, and a Democrat's daughter, Julia Holt of West Virginia...
...prearrangement with the Republicans, Democrat Tydings of Maryland, whom Franklin Roosevelt tried to "purge" last year, got the floor. The galleries were packed. Majority Leader Barkley's jaw muscles twitched in angry impotence. Sweetly relishing his revenge, Senator Tydings cried: "Shall we, now that the time limit is expiring, recapture the right vested in the Congress by the Constitution to fix the value of the nation's money? Or shall we give up that power in advance, without an emergency, to the President of the United States, and deprive ourselves of the power, in case of future need...
...record. Wisconsin's ludicrous Julius ("The Just") Heil in Madison was entangled in his own bumblings and the snares of Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record, adjourn with the least possible damage to their party. New York's Democrat Herbert Lehman recalled his Legislature to Albany to repair a budget which a Republican majority had unconstitutionally cut. But the unhappiest, unluckiest Governor of 1939 was California's Democrat Culbert Levy Olson...
Cartoonist Low is a unique combination of a student of contemporary politics and a superb draughtsman. A passionately sin cere democrat, he is also a hard worker...
...Democrat Frank Murphy of Michigan, which has two other favorite sons (Tom Dewey, Arthur Vandenberg) on the Republican side of the national fence, will tell you sincerely, and so will his friends, that he has no ambition to run for President in 1940. They say nothing about the Vice Presidency...