Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-known maxim in the publishing world that to suppress a book is to make it popular. It is much the same with a political speech. A fortnight ago, Senator Bruce, Maryland Democrat, made a speech in the Senate attacking the prospect of Government operation of Muscle Shoals because it would be an infringement of state rights, attacking the Democratic Party for cooperating with Republican insurgents in such a scheme (TIME, Jan. 12). Senator Bruce was in turn attacked by his Democratic colleagues. He held his ground and his speech is likely soon to be forgotten. Not so a speech...
...days after Senator Bruce's remarks, Nathaniel B. Dial, South Carolina Democrat, delivered another speech, much the same in tenor.* Now Mr. Dial took office as Senator in 1919, having served three terms in the office of Mayor of Laurens, S. C., his birth place, and having won the esteem of his fellow-townsmen as a lawyer interested in a number of enterprises including banking, glass, cotton goods, cotton seed products and the development of waterpower. But, last summer, when he went back to his state, he was defeated for renomination by Cole Blease, onetime Governor (TIME, Sept...
...mortifying, bitter truth that the quiet and close thinker in the White House, just elected President as the Republican nominee, is a better Democrat in many essentials, more in accord with the foundation principles of the Democratic Party, than many men who have obtained high and honorable places as ostensible Democrats...
...Senator William Cabell Bruce, Maryland Democrat, iron-gray soldier of the old school, the man who stood out against his party's alignment with the Republican insurgents in the last session of Congress, the man who voted for the Mellon tax plan and other important measures with the regular Republicans...
...second was Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, also a Democrat, hardhitting, fierce-tongued orator, he who made the keynote speech of the last Democratic Convention...