Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stirred by the Democrat's fierce bicker over Prohibition, Dry Republican Senator Arthur Capper last week predicted: "President Hoover will be renominated and will lead the Republican party to victory on a Prohibition platform. That is the issue. The Republicans are Dry. We shall lose some votes in the East but we will carry the Middle West and West solidly...
Died. Thomas Fleming, 78, political cartoonist; at Maplewood, N. J. hospital; following a physical breakdown in Florida last year. An oldtime Democrat, he cartooned for the World, the Sun, the Commercial Advertiser. His "Senator Tillman's Allegorical Cow" grinned from every fencepost in the Bryan-Taft campaign of 1908. The cow was depicted standing on a map of the U. S., with farmers working to feed her mouth in the West. Wall Street bankers milking her in the East...
April 7-Chicago mayoralty election. Chief candidates: William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, Republican; Anton Joseph Cermak, Democrat...
Finally H. R. 17054 automatically became the law of the land when the Senate with 14 votes to spare, overrode (76-to-17) the veto. Only one Democrat-King of Utah-joined the forlorn Republican opposition. President Hoover had suffered his most serious Congressional reversal...
While the good wishes of New York's Democratic Mayor were going to his Republican opponent, Democrat Cermak was receiving this telegram: CORDIAL CONGRATULATIONS ... I WISH YOU EVERY SUCCESS. A DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION IS WHAT CHICAGO NEEDS...