Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mississippi was practically bankrupt when Theodore Bilbo left the Governor's mansion in 1932 and so was he. Last year he could not raise $500 to settle a claim against his $75,000 "dream home" at Poplarville, where he grows pecans. A cousin took the place over and Democrat Bilbo was delighted to get a $6,000-a-year job in Washington clipping newspapers for AAA in an office across the hall from the men's toilet (TIME, July 3, 1933). It looked as if the runty, pistol-scarred backwoodsman was politically through. But when he heard that...
Then Maine went to the polls. With 604 out of 631 precincts reported, Governor Brann had 164,087 votes, his opponent 32,956 less. Senator Hale had 137,149, a lead of 1,155. With complete returns from the first district, Carroll Beedy was defeated by Simon M. Hamlin, Democrat and self-styled "dirt farmer...
...collected his running commentary on the New Deal. He does not like it. But he thinks the new policies must run their course. There is no road back. No gloomy Republican of the Mark Sullivan stamp, he finds himself frequently speaking through a hypothetical character called "the old-fashioned Democrat." "Where are we going?" he asks. Old-Fashioned Democrat answers by being reminded of Columbus: "He did not know where he was going when he started. He did not know where he was when he got there, and he did not know where he had been when he got back...
...there is no satisfying Old-Fashioned Democrat. The new legislation of 1933 reminded him of "the first chapter of the Book of Genesis." Later he is convinced that "The recovery isn't following the program; the program is following the recovery." Speaking in his own right, however, Author Kent is the fairest as well as the most deadly journalistic critic of the Administration. He has no ax to grind, never hits below the belt. He does not like government regulation; his heart is with the small taxpayer and the Maryland Free State. In short, he is a sound Jeffersonian...
...snap these up, ring the changes. Once General Johnson permitted himself to turn from excoriating his critics and point with pride to those "whose eyes have seen the glory." And Professor Tugwell rhapsodically prophesied a time when "every hill will be green and all the rivers blue." Old-Fashioned Democrat Kent is waiting for the muddy Missouri to change color...