Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bolshe in Russian means "larger." The Bolsheviki were at first merely the larger group or majority of the Russian Social-Democrat Party which split up in 1903 into the Bolsheviki, led by Lenin and the Mensheviki (minority). In 1918 the Bolshevik Party adopted the name Communist Party, of which Josef Stalin is now Secretary and as such Dictator of Russia...
...Most Democrats took him at his word and excluded him from their 1932 plans. For two years he sank out of political sight while his Empire State Building began to lift its high head over Manhattan. But when the 1930 Congressional elections came, Al Smith like an old warhorse, sniffed the smoke of battle. Massachusetts Democrats wanted him to help elect Marcus Allen Coolidge to the Senate. He went to Boston and received an ovation that for noise and fervor equaled his 1928 welcomes. Democrat Coolidge was elected over Calvin Coolidge's Republican candidate. The Brown Derby still had plenty...
Caught crunching his way through the packed Congress mezzanine, grizzled Mr. Tolbert was asked by a reporter why he never wore a cravat. "I still have to find a reason for wearing a tie," he snorted, adding pridefully: "My collar is as empty as a Democrat's promises...
...other was announced last week as the National Newspaper Group. It represents eleven large dailies of 5,200,000 circulation, including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, Washington Star, Buffalo Times, Pittsburgh Press, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Detroit News, St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
That was all that was needed. Spitting on their hands, the Fascists moved in. Somebody threw a chair which knocked out a Communist. Somebody else slashed the face of neutral Social Democrat Jurgensen. Inkwells, water bottles, desk drawers, chairs, ledgers, broken table legs went into the fray. Neutral deputies fled for their lives, others marooned on the speakers' dais spent a frantic quarter of an hour ducking missiles and wringing their hands. Safe in their odds of 3 to 1, the Fascists soon drove the last Communist from the Chamber, spent the next half-hour triumphantly roaring...