Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grover Cleveland drank. Calvin Coolidge does not. In many another way the two-term Democrat and the two-term Republican differ. Cleveland is the first President whom Calvin Coolidge can remember. A word unites them. It is perhaps Calvin Coolidge's favorite: "character." He keynoted it in a recent speech (Armistice Day). He has used it in nearly every speech. Last week, regretting his inability to make a speech on the 90th anniversary of Grover Cleveland's birth, he used it: "Character . . . stability . . . efficiency...
...eagle feather to their "Great White Father." ¶The President asked Congress to appropriate $1,063,000 for the construction of additional helium plants (see p. 10). ¶The President signed the appropriation bill for the Department of Agriculture. ¶The President nominated Lincoln Dixon of Indiana, onetime Democratic Congressman, for membership on the Tariff Commission to replace Henry H. Glassie, Maryland Democrat...
Senator Overman of North Carolina, a Democrat, echoed Mr. Bingham from another angle: "If the right to reject a Senator had been followed, there would not have been a Southern Senator on the floor in the days following the Civil...
Since Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, staunch Liberal, hearty democrat, now guides the helm of the Dominion Government, there is no chance that it will be put over on such a Tory tack as that proposed by Premier Ferguson. Remained, however, for some U. S. citizens the glamorous thought that some day they may be able to obtain in Canada that other commodity denied to U. S. citizens, a peerage...
...Democrat must march with the squad, Senator Ransdell, bearded Louisiana interventionist, might add his patriarchal pep to the rear rank. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, who despatched six more warships to Nicaragua last week, all the while keeping a shroud of silence over the ugly hulking war scare, should also do his bit in the squad?perhaps a hornpipe. Finally, Democrats agreed, the very man to march in the rear rank, just in front of File Closer Kellogg, would be his former law partner, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Edwin Olds. Mr. Olds it is whom rumor accuses of successfully...