Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planned to have a Democratic and a Republican Congressman address the meeting first, after which will come a debate between two members of each club, and finally the gathering is to break up into an open forum and discussion. The Republican Congressman may be Robert Luce of Cambridge, while the Democrat has not yet been chosen...
...November contest between Democrat White and Republican Ingalls is expected to be nip & tuck. Nominee Ingalls may fall to earth trying to carry Ohio for the Hoover Administration. If he does, his friends assure him he .will not be a burnt offering on the altar of the national ticket. His friends assure him he is young enough to take a beating without ruining his political career. Besides, he had nowhere else to go but into the Ohio gubernatorial race. By his energy he had worked himself out of his Washington job, having brought the Navy's five-year...
...House finished with the President's economy bill. Out of proposed savings of $210,000,000 it agreed to only $30,000,000. "It goes to prove," said the defeated Democrat in charge of the bill (Alabama's McDuffie), "that . . . representative government is dead...
Author of the House's measure was Thomas Alan Goldsborough, a Maryland Democrat from the rural Eastern shore. A lawyer by profession, his legislative hobby is banking. Placid and friendly at home, he is an energetic, fist-clenching, table-thumping speaker in Congress...
...State was still as fiercely loyal to Alfred Emanuel Smith as it was four years ago. Governor Roosevelt was persuaded to enter by blustering, self-confident James Curley, Mayor of Boston. Mayor Curley thought he saw a chance to ride a presidential winner and thereby become No. 1 Democrat of his State. Besides, Col. Edward Mandell House, quiet little party strategist with a summer home at Manchester, had declared for the New York Governor, sponsored a luncheon last year in behalf of Candidate Roosevelt. To oppose Mayor Curley and manage a Smith primary campaign, forward came Governor Joseph Buell...