Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither Democrat nor Republican but I think you take an unfair advantage of the opportunity to place the President in an unfavorable position...
...refute this charge rose the State Committee's Executive Director John G. Stutz, a Democrat appointed by Governor Landon's Democratic predecessor, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring. Last week the original subject of dispute was overshadowed when Director Stutz complained, in a statement released through Landon campaign headquarters in Topeka, that he had been refused information concerning WPA's administrative costs. His requests for access to the records, said he, had been denied by the State WPAdministrator, ignored by Federal WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Indignantly Director Stutz pointed to an order of last June in which Administrator...
...this year has blown Nebraska's party lines into the craziest political pattern in the U. S. Characteristic was the discovery of a roving New York Times correspondent who inquired last week into the political sentiments of some of Senator Norris' supporters, quickly uncovered an anti-Roosevelt Democrat, an anti-Landon Republican...
...Johnson his chief counsel. As a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, he naturally became deeply interested in farm problems. As a politician, he began agitating for an export subsidy for the U. S. farmer. When Republicans did not solve the farm problem according to his lights, George Peek became a Democrat. As a Democrat he became head of the AAA. As head of the AAA he quarreled with Braintrusters over the agricultural codes, finally resigned. President Roosevelt made him special foreign trade adviser and head of the Export-Import Banks. Then came the reciprocal trade treaties, which George Peek thought Secretary...
...American before I am a Democrat, before I am a Republican or before I'm anything, and I have never in my long public career ducked, dodged and pussyfooted, I have never found fault with anything unless I was prepared to suggest a remedy. . . . I firmly believe that the remedy for all the ills that we are suffering from today is the election of Alfred M. Landon...