Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit's better businessmen. Sponsored by the city's conservative citizenry who earlier in the year were fearful that a united labor slate would sweep the field, was Richard W. Reading, long-time city clerk. The C. I. O. candidate was an oldtime Democrat named Patrick O'Brien, Michigan's 69-year-old veteran attorney general who made his liberal name as circuit judge during the copper mine strikes in Michigan before the War. A. F. of L. belatedly entered John W. Smith, who was Detroit's mayor in the middle 1920s and has been...
...largest States, all except No. 6 (California) are governed by Democrats. Conversely, in the six largest U. S. cities only Chicago has for its Mayor a Democrat. In this independence of the local electorate Republicans glimpse the brightest ray in their infinitely gloomy skies...
...partisan primary to cull surplus candidates, leaving the two high men to choose from as Mayor of U. S. City No. 6. While a Mayor will not be elected until next month, observers knew the primary would hint whether Cleveland was ready to switch from Republican to Democrat...
Handsome, bemustached Democrat McWilliams found himself pitted against the most popular Mayor Cleveland has elected since city managership was abandoned in 1929. Son of a professor of civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harold Burton migrated to Cleveland fresh from Harvard Law School, started practicing in 1912. He rode into the City Hall as a reform candidate in 1935. Now chunky, athletic and 49, Mayor Burton arrives at City Hall each morning at 8:30, works twelve hours a day, takes pride in his clean-up of the Cleveland police force, and although a Republican, claims credit for wangling...
First shot in New Jersey's gubernatorial campaign was immediately fired not by Democrat Moore nor Republican Clee but by an Independent, a Parsi named Dinshah Pestanji Framji Ghadiali, whose first name means "King of Duty." Born in Bombay 63 years ago, King of Duty Ghadiali has been, according to his own account, a wireless experimenter at Hillsdale, N. J., a medical student, export manager of a smelting company at Union, N. J., an assistant professor of mathematics in Bombay, manager of Bombay's first cinemansion, a commander in the New York Police Air Service, a mechanical engineer...