Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bank short $170,000, closed it. Promptly arrested on a Federal warrant charging embezzlement and misapplication of funds was the bank's president. South Dakota's Lieutenant Governor Robert Peterson. This week in Pierre the State Legislature was to meet in special session. Lieutenant Governor Peterson, a Democrat, planned to attend, not preside over the Senate, as he has since 1934, and to turn in his resignation...
...Eagle is as much a Brooklyn landmark as the Bridge. Founded in 1841 as the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Kings County Democrat, the paper was controlled by successive generations of the family of Isaac Van Anden until it was acquired in 1929 by Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett. In its great days from 1892 till 1930, the Eagle's eyrie was a Renaissance castle on noisy Washington Street in Brooklyn's "downtown" section, a half mile from Henry Ward Beecher's old Plymouth Church on Orange Street and the "Heights," where some of the borough...
Originally declared winner by 550 votes of a New Hampshire seat in the U. S. House last month was Arthur B. Jenks, Republican. His Democratic opponent, Alphonse Roy, demanded a recount, result of which was announced last fortnight as the first Congressional tie in 110 years: 51,679-to-51,679 (TIME, Dec. 7). Last week the State Ballot Law Commission spent eleven hours examining contested ballots, declared Democrat Roy the winner by 17 votes. Prospective Republican membership in the 75th House was thus whittled from a minuscule 89 to a more minuscule...
...Carter Glass at a dinner of the Southern Society of New York in Manhattan last week, "once called me an unreconstructed rebel." The pleasant man, said Senator Glass, dropping the cloak of implication, was Franklin Roosevelt. Wrapping the light garment about him once more, the peppery little old Democrat then served notice that his campaign truce with the New Deal was over by enlarging as follows on an anecdote of a famed Confederate general: "Jube Early was an unreconstructed rebel to the day of his death. He used to come frequently into my newspaper office and one day he said...
...Civic Auditorium while 5,000 were turned away. In Chicago 30,000 attended a series of meetings in the Loop district; in Philadelphia the Mission lunched with Mayor S. Davis Wilson and city officials during a three-day visit attracting 20,000 listeners. In St. Louis the Globe-Democrat issued daily supplements detailing Mission activities and one young man declared that the team's appearance had dissuaded him from suicide. Everywhere Missionary Jones was the headline speaker, driving home repeatedly his message to the effect that: "Religion is at the judgment bar. America must make her choice among Fascism...