Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosecution of big-city rackets (72 convictions, one acquittal, one mistrial). The mistrial in his crowning case against Jimmy Hines, alleged Tammany protector of the "numbers" racket (TIME, Sept. 19), gave his partisans a last-minute sinking spell. But they felt that public opinion blamed Justice Ferdinand Pecora (a Democrat) more severely for his ruling than Prosecutor Dewey for the question which evoked it.** Last week, amid cheers, they brought him on-stage to begin an onslaught which they hoped might start a national Republican resurgence...
...Senator Edward R. Burke, Nebraska's loud non-New Deal Democrat, returned from a trip abroad with plenty to say. Sample: "In the things Hitler actually is doing to bring about the well-being of the entire German people, I think that he is greater than Bismarck. He already has done more than Bismarck did for the masses of people...
Nominee Fay also won the designation of the American Labor Party in his district. To be sure of getting all the anti-Roosevelt votes available in November, Nominee O'Connor last week prepared to run also as an Andrew Jackson Democrat. Should he win under that label it might save for him his chairmanship of the Rules Committee which must otherwise be taken from him as an elected Republican. To oust him from that post was, in fact, the Purge's chief aim in his case. For the Rules Committee, with power of life & death over much legislation...
...Hampshire, Republican Arthur B. Jenks won nomination to contest once more against Democrat Alphonse Roy, whom the House seated in Mr. Jenks's stead last June after the latter had served all but six days of the 75th Congress (TIME, June 20). To contest against New Deal Senator Fred H. Brown, Republicans nominated Representative Charles W. Tobey, Townsend Planner...
Fifty-one voters of Milton, Wash. (Tacoma suburb) last week marked their ballots for one Boston Curtis, Republican candidate for precinct committeeman. Boston Curtis was elected. Milton's Mayor Kenneth Simmons, a Democrat, chortled hugely. He, who had sponsored Candidate Curtis and filed his papers, had proved his point that voters "have no idea whom they support." Boston Curtis is a large brown mule...