Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Register & Tribune is Republican, but not blindly so. It did not support Warren Hardins and it favors many a Democrat for State office. It defended Henry Wallace's AAA reduction program as a temporary measure, flayed NRA. It sponsored the League of Nations, World Court, low tariffs...
...first time since he took office Franklin Roosevelt had to use his Presidential power to fire a member of his sub-Cabinet. The officer who refused to honor the customary request for a resignation was Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ewing Young Mitchell, attorney and anti-machine Democrat from Missouri. Secretary Roper issued a soapy explanation that an engineer rather than a lawyer was required for the .job. got the President to appoint Engineer John Monroe Johnson from Mr. Roper's own South Carolina as Assistant Secretary. Two days after the ouster Attorney Mitchell charged that. "improper favoritism and graft...
...Eight who back Col. Lindbergh. Besides Brothers Wooster & Albert Bond Lambert (Listerine), they were: Banker Harold McMillan Bixby, credited with naming the Lindbergh plane Spirit of St. Louis; the late Banker Harry F. Knight, his son & partner Harry Hall Knight; Publisher E. Lansing Ray of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Major William Bryan Robertson, vice president of Curtiss-Wright Airplane Co.. Earl C. Thompson, then operator of a one-plane sightseeing service at St. Louis Airport, now selling stocks, bonds & insurance at Kennett...
...Mind and Society reveals its origin by its formlessness, by its expositions abandoned half-complete, its digressions that often interrupt its arguments. Occasionally it reveals a trained lecturer's wit, and frequent sardonic asides suggest the old professor addressing students who have not won his respect. No democrat, Pareto would not simplify his thought for the masses, felt that the secrets of history were harmful to most. In his will were rigid provisions that no popular exposition of his ideas should preface his books: "My sole interest is the quest for social uniformities, social laws. I am here reporting...
...William Randolph Hearst came out for Garner-for-President as the best way of stopping the nomination of Al Smith. Nobody was more surprised or pleased than Democrat Garner who, up to that time, had had no close ties, personal or political, with the California publisher. Then Boss James A. Farley made a deal at Chicago with the Hearst forces, and Garner was nominated for Vice President-"just the waterboy on the team," as he later called himself. Neither Publisher Hearst nor Nominee Roosevelt understood the calibre of their man. If Publisher Hearst expected John Garner to become a supporter...