Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover definitely picked Senator Claude Augustus Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat of the Foreign Relations Committee, as a U. S. delegate to the February Arms Conference at Geneva. Another likely choice: Assistant Secretary of State James Grafton Rogers...
...Appointed by the President to the Tariff Commission was Democrat Ira N. Ornburn, Connecticut cigarmaker and union labor leader...
...selection of Chicago as next year's Republican convention city smacked of a public auction. When Philadelphia. Detroit, St. Louis, and Cleveland withdrew for lack of bidding cash. Atlantic City alone contested the sale. From Chicago had come a citizens delegation headed by Democrat Edward Nash Hurley, Wartime chairman of the Shipping Board, and Col. Robert Isham ("Secret Six") Randolph of the Chicago Association of Commerce. They offered the G. O. P. the city's new indoor Stadium for its meetings, promised reduced railroad fares and moderate hotel rates. Of most importance, they waved a certified check...
Busy indeed was Republican Flem Sampson's last day in office as Governor of Kentucky. As Frankfort prepared to inaugurate a Democrat on the morrow. Governor Sampson commissioned 40 more...
Next day 62-year-old Ruby Laffoon, oldtime lawyer and judge, presented himself on the Capitol esplanade to take the Governor's oath. Tall (6 ft.), solid (180 lb.), with crow's feet around kindly eyes, big mouth and a booming bass voice, Democrat Laffoon had won last month's election in no small measure by his ability to put names to faces. He first met Grover Cleveland when as a lad he had marched into the White House with a paper which he doggedly refused to give to any one but the President himself...