Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the President's office last week strode Mississippi's tall, bald Pat Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, just back from a scouting tour of the South and West. For years Senator Harrison has been a conservative "hard money" Democrat. Yet now he boldly told the President that only by currency inflation could his recovery program be made a success. President Roosevelt listened, smiled, promised nothing. Declared Senator Harrison as he emerged from the White House...
...Bank at $4,000 per year. Receiver Donahue spent three years at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, later mixed prescriptions in his father's drug store. He was ardently "For-Roosevelt-Before-Chicago." Last year he was elected State Representative from a district that had not sent a Democrat to Boston since he was born. Son James wangled his appointment out of the Treasury after Essex National's conservator, an experienced banking man, had been dismissed...
...Capitol Democratic Senators were secretly circulating a round-robin to the President protesting their failure to land jobs for friends. Particularly under fire for failing to appoint deserving Democrats were Secretary of the Interior Ickes, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Labor Perkins. Nevada's Pittman, Foreign Relations Committee chairman and president protem of the Senate, was credited with a letter to the President which declared: "It is a strange thing that if a Democrat recommends an appointee, it is political coercion. If a Republican recommends one, it is entirely unselfish. If a Democrat is named ... it involves political...
...other extreme of political thought the chief critic of NRA happens to be blind Republican Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. A mass of political contradictions, Mr. Schall once voted for Democrat Champ Clark for Speaker in the House, yet he almost wept on Pennsylvania's William Scott Vare when the Senate booted out that squat Republican, Now hardly a day passes without a barrage of dead cats for General Johnson from the Schall office on Capitol Hill. The Senator's outpourings have annoyed and embarrassed his Republican colleagues whose silent strategy is to give...
...Both Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt wrote for the gum-chewing Macfadden Press. After inauguration the Roosevelt secretariat was encouraged to talk by radio and write for publication. Professor Moley was most prolific, turning out a "State of the Nation" colyum for the McNaught syndicate, less readable but more helpful than Democrat Al Smith's monthly pieces in the New Outlook. In elaborating their plans last week, Backers Astor & Harriman did not say just what Editor Moley's contribution to their organ would be, but they gave these details...