Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most damnable thing!" cried Democrat John Dempsey of New Mexico, who was absent (as usual) when the committee first voted to publish the list. Three minutes late at a meeting called to hear his belated objections, Committeeman Dempsey vainly stormed, with Mr. Voorhis vainly carried his protests to the House floor. Least excited were those immediately concerned. The League's publicized members ranged all the way from a Capitol charwoman, who makes 50? an hour, to NLRB's Edwin Seymour Smith, who makes $10,000 a year, and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman...
...church in 1896, leased it to a burlesque house, later founded his own "People's Church." In 1917 he was horsewhipped for pacifist preachings. Cincinnati knows him chiefly as a chameleon of political thought. He has been a Coughlinite, a Townsendite, an Independent on the City Council, onetime Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, Republican candidate for a seat in the General Assembly, an elected Democrat to the Assembly, in 1936 an elected Democrat to Congress. Now he is mostly Bigelowite...
...while His Majesty vacations on the Riviera, sipping champagne with attractive French mondaines and finding that at tennis almost everyone who plays with him, from Mile Suzanne Lenglen to the current Swedish champion, Tarsten Fronfors, has an understandable tendency to lose games and sets to this grand old royal democrat they like so much...
Last week, to the delight of tourists contemplating the usual spectacle of a Houseful of sleepy fat men, quiet Mr. Woodrum spotted a hole in Ham Fish's position, crashed through it to score standing up. He charged that 37 Republicans and one Democrat, led by Ham Fish, had organized a "propaganda racket that makes the utility outfit and that of Dr. Townsend look like pikers...
Thirty-year-old, baby-eyed Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) is head of the Boy Rangers, and a simpletonian Democrat. His fuzzy ideas make Governor Hopper (foxy-grandpopsical Guy Kibbee) and Political Boss Taylor (Edward Arnold) think Jeff the ideal Senator to cover up their graft...