Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acclaimed him President of the Republic (he had then just succeeded Prince Max von Baden as Chancellor after the Imperial régime had fallen), he neither refused nor accepted, but passed the incident off with a statement that he must first consult the other leaders of the Social Democratic Party. It was a characteristic attitude and an attitude that he unswervingly followed throughout his tenure of the Presidency. At that time and since, he might have made himself a dictator; and there were (and are) not a few who asserted that the republican régime might...
...Kahn will be the second woman in the next House, the other woman member being Mrs. Mary T. Norton, New Jersey Democrat. The only woman in the present Congress is Mrs. Mae E. Nolan, who succeeded her late husband from another Congressional District in San Francisco immediately adjoining that of the Kahns...
...course Washington chuckled. One of the Senatorial wits-from the press reports, one could gauge rather accurately that he was Senator Caraway-suggested that this jiggling steed should be called Foreign Policy, because it had neither head nor tail. Another Democrat declared on the floor of the House: "I shall not be surprised if soon it will be heralded to the people that the President is riding this wooden horse for the purpose of cutting down the oat bill at the White House stable...
...Senators measured their stature on the floor of the Senate, comparing the extent to which they were sons of the soil. Quoth Senator Caraway, drawling Democrat from Arkansas...
...this Senator Heflin, great spokesman-Democrat from Alabama, made answer...