Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee to notify the President it was in session, adjourned. In the House, however, a rush of proposed legislation kept many a member in his seat. Evidence of inter-party truce (TIME, Nov. 17) was the presentation of an administration-backed $60,000,000 drought-relief appropriation bill by Democrat James Benjamin Aswell of Louisiana. Roy Orchard Woodruff of Michigan offered a bill to give the Federal Government jurisdiction over gangster murders resulting from illicit interstate negotiations. He said: "It is repeatedly charged that gunmen from one State are . . . imported into another State to 'put on the spot...
...everyone knows, Mr. Coyle's statement was not quite accurate. When he spoke, there were 218 Republicans, 216 Democrats, but also one Farmer-Laborite in the 72nd House (TIME, Dec. 1). Republican power was temporarily strengthened during the week when Democrat John Francis Quayle of New York suddenly died. A Democrat was certain to be elected to the vacancy. Nevertheless, this death reminded both parties that many an accident may happen before the 72nd Congress meets, to alter its political complexion, its significance. Between Dec. 1, 1929 to Dec. 1, 1930, Death's delegation in the House...
...last week political forecasters had figured the 72nd House of Representatives (elected last Nov. 4 but not sitting, unless called earlier by the President, until Dec. 7, 1931) as being composed of 217 Democrats, 217 Republicans, and one Farmer-Laborite (TIME, Nov. 17). Last week, however, the final official count in the 10th Illinois district proved that not Democrat William Hesse, but Republican Carl Richard Chindblom had won the right to represent it. Thus the 72nd House last week stood as follows...
Thus ended the State's strangest election. The appeal to the voters by both the Republican and the Democratic candidate was that he had been State head of the American Legion. Republican Haucke made known that he did not smoke, drink, chew or go to dances. Democrat Woodring made known that he was an expert crocheter. Political enemies even went so far as to claim he once won a county crocheting prize. His history: born in Neodesha, Kan., into a family of several sisters, served in the War, became a Neodesha bank cashier, resigned to run for the governorship...
...have you got one real man in England-I care not what you call him: autocrat, democrat, aristocrat-who can rule and dare not lie? I hope my old friend Ramsay MacDonald will at least prove the man to rule and that he will not dare to lie to his own conscience, to his own dead wife, to his living country, to his own party, and that you British delegates of all parties will help him to make history...