Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colorado. "Too much talking has ruined politicians," says Colorado's newly-elected Governor William H. Adams. During his campaign he made one speech three minutes long and issued one statement. For 47 years an officeholder, he has never been defeated, never driven an automobile, never played golf. A Democrat, he carried Colorado by 99,000 votes despite a Hoover majority...
South Dakota. A cautious wheatlander, Governor William J. Bulow, Democrat, of South Dakota, was elected. He first saw the Atlantic ocean in 1927, observed: "It certainly looks very...
...often and far enough to cause some people to suggest that the Secretary of the Treasury's calculations are not purely arithmetic, that they are sometimes tinctured with policy if not politics. In his own party, Mr. Mellon has been frequently flayed by Michigan's Senator Couzens. Democrats in the House have kept up an intermittent fire. Last week, Democrat John Nance Garner of Texas, minority leader of the House Ways & Means (revenues) Committee, renewed the attack...
...upon these two items-Greek loan and Steel refund-that Democrat Garner pounced in a speech designed to embarrass Mr. Mellon thoroughly. Said Mr. Garner: "In order to induce you to pass it [Greek loan], he [Mr. Mellon] made a misleading-and the facts show, it seems to me-a deliberately false statement as to . . . the prospects of our Treasury...
...claims, and claims similar, for taxes dating back to 1917, were not made until 1923 or later because the claimants had not known there was any chance of recovery. The claims have not yet been paid because of the intricacy of opposing contentions, the delays of tax appeal. Democrat Garner wanted to know why Mr. Mellon could not have delayed such refunds a little longer...