Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Herbert Clark Hoover was nominated there for the Presidency in 1928, Kansas City, Mo., 19th U. S. city, felt a certain obligation to the G. 0. P. Its voters gave Hoover a 30,000 majority in the election, replaced a Democrat with a Republican in Congress. Last week Kansas City gave evidence that it considered its obligation discharged. Its voters elected Democrat Bryce B. Smith, baker, mayor over Republican George E. Kimball, lawyer, a solid Democratic city council, two Democratic municipal judges...
Daniel Calhoun Roper, South Carolina Democrat, under whom, as President Wilson's Commissioner of Internal Revenue, national Prohibition enforcement began. Loud have been Wet pleas for a U. S. liquor dispensary system. Only in South Carolina from 1893 to 1907 was such a system ever attempted on a large scale. It was Mr. Roper who, as a State legislator, sponsored the bill creating it. To the Judiciary Committee Mr. Roper recited the history of that liquor experiment in his State, described the "whiskey rebellion" at Darlington, the bootlegging, graft and corruption which finally...
...asked if he would resign to make his campaign, he retorted: "Certainly not! Did Al Smith resign [as New York's Governor] when he ran for President?" Instead of picking a defeated candidate as his example Mr. Davis might with equal force have recalled, as winning presidential nominees, Democrat Thomas Woodrow Wilson, who remained Governor of New Jersey until three days before his inauguration as U. S. President, or Republican Warren Gamaliel Harding, who kept.his Senate seat for two months after the landslide that sent him to the White House. On the other hand, William Howard Taft resigned...
...Montes Claros in the state of Minas Geraes, Vice President Fernando Mello Vianna and a party of Conservative orators arrived to campaign for the coming Presidential elections (March I). Minas Geraes is a Democrat stronghold; the Conservative campaigners were greeted with a burst of gunfire from Democrat sympathizers. Five people were killed, 16 wounded, and Vice President Mello Vianna received three bullets in his neck. Wired Brazilian Minister of Justice Vianna do Castello: VIOLENCE WHICH HAS BEEN RIFE IN THE STATE OF MINAS GERAES SINCE LAST OCTOBER HAS NOW CULMINATED IN A SERIOUS POLITICAL INCIDENT. I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION...
...Canton, N. Y.), executive committeeman of International General Education Board, possessor of 15 honorary degrees, was nominated for election to the New York State Board of Regents (educational) in the Legislature. He was defeated by George H. Bond, lawyer and trustee of Syracuse University. Reason: Mr. Young is a Democrat...