Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lesser Republican, Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York, made so bold as to stage a formal Hughes rally in Manhattan, explaining that the one-time Secretary of State, onetime U. S. Supreme Court Justice and "best mind in the Republican Party" was the only man to pit against Democrat Alfred Emanuel Smith for the votes of Business and Labor. Celebrities were few at the Fish-Hughes rally, but Boomer Fish was not rebuked by the Party chiefs...
Last week out of these headquarters issued stacks and stacks of envelopes addressed to alert women Democrats all over the U. S. When each woman Democrat opened her envelope, she learned that what the Democratic Party needs is slogans, mottoes, jingles, limericks, rhymes. They had decided that the way to get slogans, mottoes, jingles, limericks, rhymes, is to have a contest, give prizes. They had decided that the most economical way to raise money for prizes is to charge a fee for entering the contest. They had decided that $100 is fair for first prize in a slogan, motto, jingle...
...Osawatomie, Kansas, U. S. history has on several occasions been made.- Last week in Osawatomie, U. S. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri made a speech on which he informally opened his campaign for the Democratic-Presidential nomination. Under a blue and windy sky the farmers who had come to town for the annual Farmers' Union munched hot dogs or cones and stood on their feet with their hands in their pockets. Their wives, many with yowling babies in arm, soon strolled away from the platform. The voice of Mr. Reed sounded incongruously vehement in the placid, warm afternoon...
Engaged. Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt, 30, actress; to Louis Camera, actor. A onetime sketch artist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he made his first stage success in Cobra in 1924, and last winter appeared with Miss Hoyt in The Dark. She in 1914, aged 17, married Lydig Hoyt, clubman, divorced him in Paris in 1924. She made her stage debut with William Faversham, in a revival of The Squaw Man in 1921. The two years following she spent with Stuart Walker's Stock Co. in Indianapolis & Cincinnati...
...Democrats, not knowing what to say, said little. Governor-Candidate Alfred E. Smith of New York said nothing. George E. Brennan, boss Democrat of Illinois, said he could discover no effect on Democratic chances. The loudest gloater, oddly enough, was the majestic New York Times, which said: "When will our dazed friends, the Republican politicians, quit sobbing and sputtering like a child whose china lamb has just been smashed? Their chagrin at the wreck of their plans is intelligible, if somewhat amusing. The pins were all set up, and now they are all knocked down...