Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ohio. In his second week as Governor, John W. Bricker (successor to Democrat Martin Davey) had fired 2,000 State employes. Ever a ready trough for jobbing politicos, the Highway Department supplied 1,310 of the dismissals. Politicians normally expect to slip in their followers after economy waves subside, but local dispensers in Ohio last week were actually worried lest John Bricker keep the vacancies vacant...
...elect to office a man who stands squarely upon the precepts of capitalism-a champion of private ownership. Before and since you [Tom Mooney] gained your freedom, you have expressed your intention to labor for a better social order. And how have you begun? By registering as a Democrat, as reported by the press...
...Street as a leading partner of C. D. Barney & Co. He cashed in on marketing Winston-Salem's R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel) stock. Relatively, he survived the 1929 crash better than most Wall Streeters. He kept in touch with North Carolina politics and his old friend Democrat Max Gardner (Governor...
...month before Franklin Roosevelt's $8,995,000,000 1940 budget appeared, conservative Democrat Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia issued an anticipatory blast at continued deficit financing. Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles replied to him in a letter that filled three newspaper columns (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week as Congress took a savage nibble at the President's special Relief budget (see p. 77), Senator Byrd replied to Mr. Eccles in six newspaper columns. Juiciest points of Byrd answers...
...after his retirement from office, Maryland's fat former Governor, Republican Harry Whinna Nice, gloatingly sent to his successor, Democrat Herbert O'Conor, a package of headache powders...