Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Pittman (Dem.) of Nevada: "I expected it. I never thought that Ford was a Democrat...
Senator Bruce of Maryland was the sole Democrat to vote for Senator Cummins. Borah, Gooding, Norbeck and Jones joined the insurgents in voting for Couzens. Senators Hiram Johnson of California and Capper of Kansas also joined the Couzens forces, who at their highest point polled 14 votes, compared with about 34 for Cummins and 36 for Smith on the later ballots...
Senator Caraway of Arkansas, compressed into the words "T. H. Caraway, Democrat, Jonesboro...
...days later Senator Johnson made a speech to a post of the American Legion and referred to the action of Senator Bruce (Democrat) who voted with the Republicans to prevent the election of a Democrat as Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee (see page 3) : "This bird from Maryland flopped when all that was needed to elect Smith was his vote. . . . The promise of the average politician who uses fine words in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the people is like a rabbit sausage. Fifty-fifty- one horse and one rabbit. The people get the rabbit...
...Author. Journalist, editor, novelist, short story writer, playwright, philanthropist, essayist - Theodore Dreiser has been each in turn. He entered newspaper work at the age of 21. After a few months on the Chicago Daily Globe, he became dramatic editor and traveling correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and subsequently traveling correspondent of the St. Louis Republic. He was for some years employed in special editorial work for Harper's, Century and other large publishing houses. From 1907 to 1910 he was editor-in-chief of the Butterick publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea, English Delineator...