Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spend the Summer abroad, bethought herself of a less fortunate lady, and offered Mrs. Coolidge the use of her private swimming-pool during the early morning hours several times a week. Mrs. Coolidge accepted and asked that Mrs. George Wharton Pepper (Republican, Pennsylvania) and Mrs. Andrieus A. Jones (Democrat, New Mexico) be invited to share the pool with her at the designated hours...
...flurry was caused by a letter from Mayor Curley (Democrat) of Boston to Senator David Ignatius Walsh. The Mayor asked for an investigation of the Coolidge campaign fund contributions on the basis of the following paragraph from a letter sent out by the chairman of the "Pipe Fitting and Allied Material Group" in Massachusetts to make collections...
Next November Massachusetts will select a Senator. David Ignatius Walsh, Democrat, is the present occupant of that post. He will stand for reelection. Meanwhile the Republicans are planning to oppose him. One of the aspirants for the Republican nomination was William M. Butler. But he withdrew two weeks ago when President Coolidge chose him to head the Republican campaign next Fall. In withdrawing, Mr. Butler expressed the hope that Governor Channing Cox of Massachusetts would be the Republican nominee. Last week Mr. Cox announced that he planned to retire, would...
...entire week the Senate labored over the tax reduction. When the surtax schedules were reached, it was expected that several days would be spent in debate. Instead, after only one day, the Democrats forced a vote and supplanted the Mellon rates by the rates proposed by Senator Simmons, North Carolina, Democrat (surtaxes beginning at 10% on $10,000 increasing to 40% at $500,000; normal tax 2% up to $4,000, 4% from $4,000 to $8,000, 6% above $8,000). The vote on the Simmons plan was 43-40 for the surtaxes and 44-37 on the normal...
...barely recovered. During the eighteenth century especially it fared evilly among the colonists of the New World; in fact the stern-eyed Puritans were wont to frown upon it as the very text book of the devil himself. Even Thomas Jefferson, though a Virginian and a liberal democrat, felt called upon to declare that "a great obstacle to good education is the inordinate passion prevalent for novels and the time lost in that reading which should be instructively employed." It would be no little shock to the presidential educator to scan the reading lists of English...