Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Consideration of the proposal in the Senate was moved not by a Re- publican, but by a Democrat, Senator King of Utah. The vote for and against immediate consideration was divided on practically the same lines as the vote on the League of Nations Covenant. Senator Lodge, Republican leader, merely declared against consideration. Senator Johnson, leader of the irreconcilables, led the insurgent group against the proposal itself. The vote of the Senate indicates chiefly that the Republicans want public opinion to crystallize before taking a definite stand...
...final two hours on Sunday morning were eminently characteristic of the temper of the two bodies. In the House, the scene of prize-fights and vaudeville repartee, Republican made love to Democrat and vice versa, while the Marine Band played and various members rendered vocal selections. The Senate was--the Senate. To the very end partisan, snapped at partisan and the body finally disbanded without even the usual vote of thanks to the presiding officers. So died the Sixty-seventh Congress, just as it had lived...
...record will not be written in golden characters on the tablets of Time. Although Senator Robinson is a democrat, his statement that "no important legislative achievement except bills of a non-partisan nature and except the Fordney-McCumber tariff act can be awarded the Sixty-seventh Congress" is no exaggeration. The passage of the Fordney tariff was not greeted with a universally joyous acclaim. Certain pledges made by Republicans for the creation of a soldiers' bonus have been repudiated along with President Harding's mellifluent promise of an association of nations. The settlement of the British Debt problem, although...
...evening of Feb. 19 Senator Sheppard, Texas Democrat, opened the final debate on the Administration Ship Subsidy bill with a seven-hour speech on the League of Nations. Similar arguments against the measure continued for more than a week until the bill was pronounced dead by Senator Jones, its manager...
...preserve his name to perpetuity. Now a beacon-light of politics is shattered when we learn that Washington never said "avoid entangling alliances". True, no less an authority than Jefferson did say it, but the effect is no longer the same. It is well known that Jefferson was a Democrat, so of course he was prejudiced...