Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iowa at the age of 3. From behind the plow and with a not unusual schooling, he entered a law office in Cedar Rapids. He ate up the law like so much beefsteak. Iowa, in that era an uplift-crusading Republican community, was no place for this pertinacious Democrat. At 26, he went to Kansas City, Mo. One of his first political jobs was county prosecutor. He secured 285 convictions out of 287 cases during his 15-month term-an astounding record. On such food the inquisitor of the Senate was trained. For two terms he was an able Mayor...
Thereupon, Senator Edward I. Edwards of New Jersey, Democrat, famed for the appearance of his face in Lucky Strike advertisements, offered Mr. Dawes a cigaret. The Vice President accepted it, took two deep inhales, crumpled it on his plate. Later, in the drawing room, he resorted to his pipe...
...Dill, after teaching country school and reporting for Cleveland newspapers, went West. He reached the State of Washington in 1909, and 13 years later persuaded that commonwealth to send him, only 38 and a Democrat, to the mighty Senate...
Many Chicagoans do not care who is nominated by the Republican party this month. They have agreed to hope that Mayor Dever, Democrat, will be re-elected in April. He, at least, has not called or been called a rat or a liar...
Popular, able, Mayor William E. Dever, Democrat...