Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Giving a replica of the Lindbergh Medal and a signed photograph of himself to young Hilary Lucke, schoolboy son of a Manhattan banker. The President's aides were pleased that Hilary, leaving the President's presence, exclaimed: "Dad, a fellow can even be a Democrat and like Mr. Hoover...
...least a dozen House and Senate elections will be formally contested after Congress meets, in addition to earlier recounts in the field. In an Indiana Congressional District (8th), for example, a Republican claimed victory by ten votes out of 88,400 while in an Illinois district (24th) a Democrat insisted he had won by 13 votes out of 54.600. The senatorial election in Minne sota hinged on some 8,000 votes out of 565,000. But no such late switches would be large enough to give either party the working majority of 25 or more House seats required to legislate...
...remote possibility remain unbroken when that body meets next year, upon 34-year-old Farmer-Labor Representative Paul John Kvale of Benson, Minn, would fall a tremendous decision. He would be a sort of political traffic cop, for his all-important vote could put either Republican Longworth or Democrat Garner into the Speaker's automobile. War veteran, county newspaper editor, secretary to his late father, Representative Ole John Kvale who succeeded Andrew J. Volstead in the House only to be burned to death last year in a summer cottage (TIME, Sept. 23, 1929), young Representative Kvale spoke modestly...
Unchallenged in the Senate stood the eight seats Democrats had wrested from Republicans in Massachusetts, West Virginia, Ohio. Illinois, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, South Dakota. To these gains was added a ninth when last week's belated count showed that Democrat Maruel Mills Logan had roundly trounced Lincoln-faced Republican Senator (by appointment) John Marshall Robsion in Kentucky. Only upset in the late returns came in Minnesota where blind, insurgent Republican
...Senator Thomas Schall wriggled through to re-election over Democrat Einar Hoidale and thereby gave the G. O. P. its one-man Senate margin. Senator-reject Hoidale called for a recount, threatened to institute contest proceedings before the Senate...