Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dayton (Ohio) Herald. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Paisley Burtch of Clarinda, Iowa and settled in Nebraska. She gave him one son, Findley-for the past five years financial adviser to Salvador-and two daughters. He edited the Papillion (Xeb.) Times. In 1891 he was already full of Democratic sentiments: William Jennings Bryan made him his secretary, took him to Washington (paying his expenses, but no salary). This position lasted but a few-months. Howard returned to Papillion, entered politics. Only straight Democrat running against the American Protective Association, Populist ("Demopop") and Republican candidates, he was elected to the State...
...Democratic Representative John Mor?gan Evans, 67, Dry, held a very narrow lead for renomination over John Patrick Monaghan, 25, Wet, in the First Congressional District. Renominated in the Second Congressional District was Re- publican Representative Scott Leavitt who will face Tom Stout, Democrat, in the November election...
...Democrat Byrns, afire with political zeal, added to the agreed total of 1931 appropriations $51,000,000 for future payment of War claims, and $199,310,597.12 appropriated in the first or special session of this Congress for farm relief and back postal pay to railroads, arriving at a total of $5,124,239,830.28. This sum, he argued, exceeded last year's appropriations by $459,003,062.24. He made much of the fact that White House appropriations under President Hoover had jumped $91,840 from the $43 7, 1 80 President Coolidge got along with. Said he : "Even...
...speak not as a Democrat but as one inspired. We are just as near the economic bottom as a country can go. ... A prominent Republican came to me in Washington about present conditions. I told him to go back to President Hoover, sit down in his office and tell the President he could thank God the depression came in the middle of his term. For as sure as fate in 1932 the chimneys will be smoking, the farmers will be getting good crops that will bring them good prices and Mr. Hoover will be reelected. . . . I don't approve...
...Important members of the N. A. M.: General Electric Co., International Harvester Co., Packard Motor Car Co. Mr. Edgerton is also president of the Lebanon (Tenn.) Woolen Mills, trustee of Vanderbilt University, trustee of Martin College (Pulaski, Tenn.), a Democrat, a Kiwanian, a Rotarian, a Southern Methodist...