Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrat ever finished a campaign feeling more confident of his election to the Presidency than the party's 1932 nominee...
...There is not a safeguard in the R. F. C. act that was not written into it by a Democrat or a Progressive Republican after the bill came from the Treasury Department. . . . The very fact that not one dollar of the corporation's debentures has been offered to private investors but every dollar of them unloaded on the Federal Treasury is a clear portent of the burden the taxpayers will be compelled to endure. President Hoover has converted the Treasury into a national pawnshop and infected the central government with the fatal germ of financial socialism...
...Senate the Democrats ran their strength up to the record-breaking figure of 58 and possibly more-a clear gain of eleven seats over their present membership. This startling increase was secured mostly at the expense of Republican Old Guardsmen who suffered defeat not only because they had been "ins" for many a long year but also because they were identified in the voters' mind as conservative supporters of the unpopular Hoover regime. Dean of the Senate in point of service (29 years) and chairman of its powerful Finance Committee is long, lanky, lugubrious Reed Smoot whom Utah voters...
Indiana's James Eli Watson, long-legged, large-stomached, small-eyed leader of the present Republican Senate majority of one, was defeated by Democrat Frederick Van Nuys, Indianapolis attorney. President Hoover, campaigning in the State, had made a warm personal appeal for Senator Watson's reelection. Watson entered the Senate in 1917, succeeded Charles Curtis as G. 0. P. leader in 1929. Long a Dry, he ran as a Resubmissionist. Senator-elect Van Nuys, a longtime Democratic worker, favors Repeal and beer. There was a real partisan revenge in the defeat of New Hampshire's Senator since...
Indiana. Republican Raymond Springer rode circus elephants in an effort to be Governor. But Democratic Paul Vories McNutt, onetime (1928-29) Commander of the American Legion, rode the Roosevelt wave, left him far behind. Ohio. Democratic Governor George White, onetime gold-rusher in the Klondike, managed to resist the popular tide against the "ins" and hold his office against Republican David Sinton Ingalls, young and wealthy, the Navy's only War ace. At the President's request, Governor-reject Ingalls had left the Hoover sub-Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to try and carry...