Word: hoovercrat
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...regular Dry Democrat who supported the Brown Derby in 1928, Senator- designate Morrison was at once confronted with a major and perhaps controlling decision in the case of his fellow townsman. Frank R. McNinch, appointed as a Hoovercrat to the Federal Power Commission...
...Last week President Hoover nominated: Senator Frederick Moseley Sackett of Kentucky for Ambassador to Germany: Gilchrist Baker Stockton, Florida Hoovercrat, oldtime Belgian and Austrian relief worker, Minister to Austria; Abraham C. Ratshesky, philanthropic Boston banker, onetime Assistant Massachusetts Food Administrator, Minister to Czechoslovakia; William E. Lee, Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, an Interstate Commerce Commissioner...
Virginia. Nationally significant was the election as Virginia's next Governor of Professor John Garland Pollard (William & Mary), regular Democrat, over Professor William Moseley Brown (Washington & Lee), Hoovercrat. Republican claim- stakes sunk in Virginia by Herbert Hoover last year were jerked up and cast aside as the State was returned to normal Democracy by a thumping 70,000-vote margin. When Republicans and anti-Smith Democrats coalesced on Professor Brown and "a new era of humanity" was predicted (TIME, July 8), President Hoover wished the new group well, hoped it would hold his 1928 gains in the South. Underlying...