Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic Britain and France were reported trying to get Democrat Davis to wend his appeasing way to Berlin and Rome, beard Hitler and Mussolini with blandishments. The Paris newspundit Pertinax suggested that the Great Powers might succeed if President Roosevelt would find a way to permit Germany and Italy to borrow hugely in return for agreements by Berlin and Rome to cease arriving and give concessions "such as to involve the practical disappearance of Hitlerism and Fascism"-this being Pertinax'?, sly way of saying that Mr. Davis faces the supreme challenge to his optimism. In London David Lloyd George...
Next most disturbing influence was that of Edward R. Burke, who three years ago was elected to the Senate with the support of Nebraska's Democratic boss, Arthur Mullen. Slow-moving, stocky, a lawyer out of Harvard Law School, he first won national attention during the campaign of 1934. President Roosevelt at Green Bay quoted one of Burke's rare purple passages ("The New Deal is an old deal as old as the earliest aspirations of humanity for liberty and justice and the good life. . . . It is new as the Declaration of Independence was new and the Constitution...
First off he disarmed Administration Senators by announcing himself a lifelong Democrat who had voted enthusiastically for Franklin Roosevelt both for Governor and President, and who heartily believed that the present Court situation was "manifestly unsatisfactory and calls for corrective action." He agreed that the Federal Government needed more power. But, he pointed out, if six new Roosevelt justices should agree with the interpretation of the Constitution's "general welfare" clause which the President put upon it in his last fireside chat, there would be virtually no limit to the Government's powers. "Furthermore," drawled the Dean...
...their owners, make the nominally small salaries of J. Stalin & Friends of no real importance, set them definitely off from Russia's masses as Mr. & Mrs. Davies are set off in the U. S. by their wealth. By a joker in the new Soviet Constitution, "The Most Democratic In The World" as Democrat Stalin's propaganda calls it (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante), many property rights have been restored to Russia's "toiling masses"-and thus to the prosperous Big Red class which today owns so much, and can now, under the new Constitution, bequeath...
...being used for a much better purpose now," commented Democrat Davies. "I am impressed by the work being done in Kharkov...