Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to try to make the Senate interesting. ... I am going to make a fight to have everything done in the open and aboveboard. I want no secrecy. I will try to have executive sessions abolished entirely." So spake Senator-elect Cole L. Blease, ebullient Democrat from South Carolina, as he was looking over Washington, preparatory to taking office...
...Debated a treaty, negotiated in 1903 by Secretary of State John Hay, whereby the title of Cuba to the Isle of Pines would be confirmed. Although every administration has approved the treaty, it has lain in the Senate for over 20 years. Senator Borah, Republican, and Senator Ralston, Democrat, opposed it. Senator Swanson, Democrat, endorsed it. No action...
Minister of Defense-OTTO GESSLER, Democrat...
Governor Jonathan M. Davis of Kansas, a Democrat, had only a day or two more of his term to serve when suddenly a warrant was sworn...
...handful of students remaining in Lawrence for the vacation paraded the streets as a protest against the eviction of their Chancellor, indignantly repudiated the charge of aloofness, declaring themselves to be the best judges. Many irate Republicans wrote letters of protest to the Administration; many a staunch Democrat backed the Governor against his agitated enemies. It was, however, bruited about that the new Governor, Ben S. Paulen, Republican to the core, would reinstate the Chancellor. Public opinion became calmer...