Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much for notes by a determined Republican on an incorrigible Democrat...
...genial Commissioner Helvering, 57, well above the level of his predecessors. Born in Felicity, Ohio, he got to Congress in 1913 by way of law practice in Kansas, sat for six years as an active tax legislator. He was Mayor of Salina, Kans. for five years, chairman of the Democratic State Committee in the campaigns of 1930 and 1932. Kansas' once-potent Democrat Arthur Mullen got him appointed Internal Revenue Commissioner in 1933 over considerable objection by Republican Senators. Though he compromised last week with one famed income tax evader (see col. 2), Commissioner Helvering has distinguished himself chiefly...
...good. To Senator Wagner and other insurgents who favor more & bigger appropriations for relief flocked many an Old Guardsman seeking to put the President in a hole, many a Democrat who wanted to curry favor with the A. F. of L., many a Senator who believed that five billions for relief was too much, that the surest way of killing it was to boost the figure so much higher that the President could not accept it. Shrewd Huey Long, striving to wreak his vengeance on the Administration, succeeded at the last minute in transferring a critical "pair." Result: the prevailing...
...definitely put itself into that category. The opposition of Republican Senators to the administration in the recent "prevailing wage" amendment vote was no more than blind opposition. Their vote was based on the reasoning that President Roosevelt wants the Relief Bill passed without the amendment, that Roosevelt is a Democrat, that, therefore, he must be opposed...
...went to the chair. Hence Editor Patterson gladly paid $20 for the copy of the Post with the headline: HAUPTMANN GUILTY BUT ESCAPES DEATH. Next day the Herald appeared with a stinging "open letter" from "Cissy" Patterson. Caption: "You Asked For It-Eugene." C. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat's behavior was most extraordinary. Its extra carried two stories, one giving the penalty as life imprisonment, the other as death...