Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Wheeler of Montana, fire-eating Democrat, had much to say. Herewith some...
...late Herman Ridder who, born a New Yorker, in 1851 of German parents, bought the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung in 1889. He had already established two Catholic newspapers in Manhattan and under his direction the Staats-Zeitung became the country's leading German daily. An independent Democrat, he was national democratic treasurer in 1908. A thorough German, he defended the Kaiser during the War, as far as his U. S. patriotism would permit, daily publishing an editorial in English that his attitude might be clearly understood. He died poor owing to a large and unfortunate investment. Friends assumed...
...reply to various stories concerning the wherefore of his guard, young Mr. Coolidge last week told a newsgatherer at Amherst, Mass.: "They have to take someone for a ride. I suppose I might as well be the one. I don't mind it. It's probably some Democrat who wants to get something off his chest...
...fold struggle: the creation of a perfect art, and the elevation of humanity to the point of appreciating it. In the first, Walter Damrosch is no pre-eminent figure. In the second, he is perhaps the greatest of all. Despite his drawing room graces, he is, at heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation to art as the roaring of the bull of Bashan bears to the voice of Galli...
...warp and woof of New Bedford, Mass., textile city, scurried to the polls last week, pasted little stickers on many a ballot. On each sticker was the name of Charles Sumner Ashley, Democrat. When the ballots were counted it was found that "Sticker" Ashley had been elected Mayor by a majority of some 6,000 votes...