Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ella A. Boole of the W. C. T. U. "We will show our appreciation," said she. Dr. S. E. Nicholson, secretary of the Anti-Saloon League, put it the other way around. He promised that anti-salooners would spend $250,000 in New York State alone to beat Democrat Smith...
...consistent and calculating career of mendacity which would belittle even Jesse James, who was romantic enough to ride a horse." Mr. Hogg also imputed "stalwart avarice" and "piratical trading" to Mr. Jones, but few took note. They just admired Mr. Jones and decided he was a real Democrat when, to explain Mrs. Jones's not being at the station to meet Mrs. Wilson he said: "She's home, frying the chicken...
...temperance. Governor Smith curtly confirmed this "news." When the Resolutions Committee began its work none could guess how the drink plank would be phrased or by whom. Senators Pittman of Nevada and King of Utah, Drys both, were for conciliation through vagueness. Boss Brennan of Illinois said: "No sensible Democrat ought to worry. . . . Only one person in 25,000 thinks and only one in 50,000 reads the party platform...
Thus Frank Gannett made good in Rochester, perhaps the most satisfactory achievement of his life. He paid more for the Hartford Times (TIME, Feb. 6), but he cares more for the Democrat and Chronicle. He is known from coast to coast, but cleanly, comfortable Rochester held the particular puddle in which he wanted...
...Sole Democratic organ in a Vare-ridden city, the Philadelphia Record last week passed from the control of the Wanamaker family into the capable hands of Editor-Publisher J. David Stern, owner of the Evening Courier and the Morning Post of Camden, N. J., 42-year-old veteran of newspaper battles from Seattle, Wash., to Providence, R. I. Like the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (see above), the Record goes to a local boy. "New ownership," observed Mr. Stern, briefly, "implies no change in editorial policy...