Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alignment. The curious situation lay in the fact that Senator Curtis, the Republican leader, and Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, both opposed the bill - yet it was passed by vote of 69 to 13. The opponents of the bill never mustered more than 14 votes. The opposition was small but stiff. Senator Curtis offered an amendment which would have allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission to reverse any wage settlement if it was likely to cause an increase of freight rates contrary to the public interest. He brought together only 12 votes for his proposal. For five days this little band...
...White House that the President would make no speeches in the interest of any candidates for election next fall, except that he might go to Massachusetts to aid Senator Butler, his close friend and political associate, who faces a stiff contest with onetime Senator David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat), who was unseated by Mr. Gillett two years...
...limit to their talk. Every now and then he still speaks of that limitation, but the whole incident seems in a fair way of being forgotten. You see that man with the iron grey hair and iron jaw-rather a fine figure -that is Senator Jim Reed, a Democrat. He is dissociated from his Democratic colleagues but he has put up a fine fight on nearly every issue that has come before this Congress. He poured forth fire and brimstone on the World Court, on the Debt settlements. He is one of the fiercest attackers of prohibition. You see that...
...business man and he is. It is Butler, who is supposed to be especially close to the President and the personal representative of the Administration. He tries to manage things but he is not always successful. That grey-haired man with rather stiff movements is Bruce. He is a Democrat and another one of the vigorous antiprohibitionists. Like King, he has much to say on many subjects. He too is very learned and fond of classical allusions, but he can be fierce at times. James Couzens, millionaire, isn't here. He has been ill of late. When...
...What this Government needs is a political upheaval to sweep away the dead wood. I do not hesitate to ask my party associates what the Democratic party is here for? To join in these nefarious schemes? To unite with Mellon in all his demands? A few days ago my secretary (Hicklin Yates) defined a Democrat as one who worships at the shrine of Woodrow Wilson and votes with Andrew Mellon. The Republicans at least have a policy?even though it is a buccaneering expedition...