Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unimposing, with bristling hair over a broad brow and keen deep-set eyes; he had and has courage, industry and a ready tongue. First in the House (1903-13), later in the Senate (1913-31) he bitterly fought favoritism and oppression in all its varied forms. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat, his fellow Senator from Nebraska, (1911-23) was his most cherished foe. But year by year his fire died down as he found the institutions he fought as impregnably intrenched as ever. In 1923, Senator Hitchcock, defeated, retired; Senator Norris, robbed of both foe and issues yearned for a quiet...
...voters swarmed about the polls. Police squads in cars, armed with rifles and machine guns patrolled the streets; state militia stood ready to answer riot calls. It seemed probable that onetime Mayor William Hale Thompson, Republican, would again be elected Mayor; but followers of William E. Dever, Democrat, present mayor, were full of hope. Dr. John Dill Robertson, Independent, also...
Chinese first heard of Wang when he attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate the Manchu Prince Regent in 1907, and barely escaped abroad with his own life. That attempt stamps Wang as a democrat and a patriot in Chinese eyes...
...portly one that he had been found innocent of high improprieties. The margin of innocence was two votes. A majority of the Senators voted guilty but two-thirds were needed to convict. The portly one was Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie, against whom the weekly Post-Democrat of his home town had loudly protested for alleged jury-packing and interference with freedom of the press (TIME, April...
...Editor Dale that the reason Judge Dearth's daughter ran away from home might be, not mental derangement, but moral. The girl was later found dead in a river. But Judge Dearth, irate and mortified, had meantime over-exerted his powers by arresting newsboys, confiscating their Post-Democrats and forbidding them to sell any more. The howl that Editor Dale was able to put up over this and other "Dearth scandals" persuaded the board of managers of the Indiana House of Representatives to prosecute Judge Dearth before the Senate. At the trial last week, testimony tended to show that...