Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succeed the late Samuel D. Nicholson. Ex-President Wilson, William G. McAdoo, William J. Bryan and General Leonard Wood all made suggestions. Governor Sweet chose to select his own man, Alva B. Adams, son of the late Governor Alva Adams. Governor Sweet's party label is " Progressive Democrat." So it was expected that he would appoint a Democrat of radical tendencies-a Democratic La Follette, another Dill. It was understood that the La Follette group wanted him to appoint ex-Congressman Keating, now editor of Labor. Instead he brought about more or less of unification among all shades...
...published his memoirs.* Expressed in simplest terms and in Mr. Pettigrew's own phrase, the volume aims to suggest that "politicians serve the business interests first and the public afterwards." (Mr. Pettigrew is ostensibly Socialist-though he started Republican and in 1896 became Populist-Democrat...
Died. John W. Rainey, 42, Democrat, Congressman from the 4th Illinois district (Chicago), of pneumonia. He had the shortest biography in the Congressional Directory -just his name-not even his political party...
...editor says that many Republicans, like him, will vote for Democrat McAdoo, and by so doing will compass the defeat of Mr. Harding...
...Wright of The New York Globe, Herbert Bayard Swope of The New York World, Casper Yost of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat are conspicuous defenders of the new faith...