Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister to Persia, President Roosevelt chose William Harrison ("Bill") Hornibrook of Utah, Minister to Siam under President Wilson. The Administration owed quiet, erudite Mr. Hornibrook, publisher of the Salt Lake Times, a double debt. A militant Democrat but no Mormon, he published last year a tract called "Thirty Reasons Why Smoot Should Be Defeated." Onetime Senator Smoot admits the pamphlet defeated his reelection. By substituting Senator James Watson's name for Smoot's, the tract was also used to good effect in the Indiana Senatorial campaign...
...Helena, made him director of grain marketing at Chicago. There he fell in with George Peek's theories of agricultural legislation and together they fought for the McNary-Haugen bill. When Mr. Peek, disgusted with the G. O. P.'s nomination of Herbert Hoover in 1928, turned Democrat, Chester Davis beamed. He was already vice chairman of the Smith Independent Organizations Committee, chief thumper for the Brown Derby among dirt farmers. After the Hoover landslide they cooled their enthusiasm by starting a company to make things out of cornstalks. Unlike George Peek, Administrator Davis is thoroughly in sympathy...
...authors of these proposals are seven members of the Ways & Means Committee headed by Representative Samuel Billingsley Hill of Waterville, Wash. Democrat Hill, who got to Congress in 1923 by plumping for the soldier bonus and promising to "soak the rich," is not so radical as he sounded ten years ago. Today he is even rated as a "conservative with progressive leanings." The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington and the Hill Bill to boost tariffs to compensate for depreciated foreign currencies have been his most noted concerns...
...Permit me to say in the frankest manner," Democrat Hull had blazed, "that the International Bankers have always obstructed the Roosevelt Government with all the forces at their disposal. They continue to do so. Our Federal Government wishes to help both the debtors and creditors. Our Congress intends to make the International Bankers responsible for any losses arising from the sale of foreign bonds to private individuals." But Mr. Hull ended by saying that the U. S. Delegation could not vote on Dr. Puig's moratorium proposal...
...newspaper will be independent politically like the rest of my papers. I support President Roosevelt because he is a great Liberal not because he is a Democrat. LaGuardia is another great Liberal. . . . I am behind General Johnson and the NRA . . . controlled credit inflation. I want to run a newspaperman's newspaper...