Word: opinionatedness
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Called into special session on four days notice, the 73rd Congress, young and Democratic, sat momentously in the Capitol last week. President Roosevelt had summoned it to meet the banking crisis-Emergency Item No. 1 of the New Deal. Not since War days had the Congressional temper been so grave...
Naturally there have been and are at present exceptions to the rule, but the fact remains that the majority of Advisers are living up to the tradition, and that this year's Freshman Class will encounter the same difficulties that other classes have faced. It is unlikely that the college...
Biographer Clark considers Adams "the Great Independent of American politics. Excessively opinionated, dogmatic, egocentric, cold, yet at the same time honest, conscientious, patriotic and fearless, both his faults and his virtues made it difficult, almost impossible, for him to work in conjunction with others to the extent necessary to make...
Thus was a prime issue, not in either party's platform, forged for the campaign. Speaker Garner, stumping as the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee, could set himself up as the friend of the Masses against the Classes. He could tell plain, unthinking, debt-ridden voters at the cross-roads...
If there is any distinction between the Democratic and Republican Parties it is that the Democrats indulge in spontaneity. Freedom of speech and action are the Democracy's cardinal tenets. No leader is so small or obscure that he cannot pop up and make himself heard. Because the Party is...