Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This mortal deadlock continued when the Senate adjourned for the holidays- three weeks in session and almost nothing done. The Democrats took opportunity to play the Republicans for inaction. Senator Reed of Missouri (Democrat) called the deadlock "perfectly childish" because the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee was "inconsequential." Senator Wheeler of Montana, a Democrat, but heartily in accord with the Republican insurgents, took issue with the Senator from Missouri, declaring that the Chairmanship was vitally important...
Senator A. Owsley Stanley of Kentucky, another Democrat rose to praise the deadlock: "What Democrat, what patriot, what lover of his country could ask Congress to put this thing [the Republican majority] in motion again? Do we want another railroad bill? Do we want to put more burdens on the backs of the poor and relieve still more coffers of the rich...
Like The World, Cobb was a strong Democrat, but he was as fearless in criticizing Democratic leaders as he was ardent in his politics. Of late years his editorial page was recognized as one of the few vigorous examples of its kind still surviving in America...
...ever sat in the President's chair who was more genuinely a democrat or held more tenaciously to his faith in democracy than Woodrow Wilson, but no other man ever sat in the President's chair who was so contemptuous of all intellect that was inferior to his own or so impatient with its laggard processes...
Died. Wilhelm Pfannkuck, 82, oldest Social Democrat in Germany, friend of Karl Marx, La Salle and Engels, Honorary President of the Weimar General Assembly in 1919 and member of the Reichstag since 1884, in Berlin...