Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rhode Island Democrats, who last year upset political tradition by taking control of the State Senate, in recent weeks have voted $100 bonuses right & left to Rhode Island War veterans who failed to apply for them within the period originally set by law, ending in 1923. Last week a straight-faced Republican State Senator introduced a bill to pay a $100 bonus to Sergeant Evael O. W. Tnesba of the Twelfth Machine Gun Battalion, asked unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. No objection was made and a Democrat Senator generously seconded the measure. It was passed instantly. When Republicans began...
...taxes-only substitute taxes-to pay for substitute AAA, that the question of taxes to pay the Bonus was still under study. Not a little disgusted was Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee, where all tax bills are supposed to be born. Said this aged North Carolina Democrat: "It seems strange the President does not tell us before he tells the Press. . . . It would be better to postpone a tax bill to next year if they can wait that long. . . . We can do better when our minds are not occupied with something else." No move did he make...
Sirs: A blossom to TIME'S copywriters (Jan. 13, p. 13) for their crisp, 75-word, four-sentence summary of illegal and defunct AAA-so simple even a Democrat should understand. VIOLET G. OWENS St. Louis...
...Deal heard in this country came from the lips of ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith speaking before the Liberty League in New York Saturday night. With no trace of personal bitterness or ravings, but with fairness and in plain terms, did the nation's leading "conservative Democrat" call the administration to task for its neglected party pledges and its wanderings from the paths of constitutionality. An especial tribute to Mr. Smith's sincerity of purpose is the fact that the Liberty League, at first evidently affected by the dinner and convivial atmosphere, grew steadily less noisy and toward...
...hostile tilt of his cigar, National Committeeman Eugene Talmadge of Georgia stood out like a skeleton at a feast. Ever since President Roosevelt removed Georgia's relief administration from his hands, Governor Talmadge has called himself a "Jeffersonian," as distinguished from a "Jacksonian." Democrat. Popping up in Washington, Gene Talmadge ostentatiously absented himself from the Jack son Day Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel but showed up at the Willard next morning just before Boss Farley made his rousing speech...