Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, President Coolidge placed a wreath at the base of the statue of the Democrat, Andrew Jackson, close to the White House. No previous Republican President is known to have done...
...Elected Senator Ellison D. Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, on the 32nd ballot...
Thirty-one times, Senators of the United States cast their ballots without a majority of them being able to combine in the choice of one man for an important committee chairmanship. On the thirty-second effort they succeeded. Senator Ellison Du Rant Smith, South Carolina Democrat, was elected to the disputed post (TIME, Dec. 24, 31) of Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee...
...Senator Sheppard, Democrat, of Texas, delivered a speech eulogizing President Wilson and reviewing the origin and progress of the League of Nations...
Four visitors called at the White House and went into conference with President Coolidge. One of them was Wesley L. Jones of Washington, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee ; another was Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, ranking Democrat of the same committee. The other two were members of the Merchant Marine Committee of the House. When the conference had concluded, Senator Jones announced that Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, U. S. N., retired, had been chosen head of the Emergency Fleet Corporation...