Word: republican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charges and refused to act. Your correspondent states with a grieved air that the pamphlets I distributed contained no radical phraseology. True enough. What they did state was that as long as American workers continued to elect to office the nominees of the Capitalist owners of the Republican and Democratic parties, laws would be passed inimical to the working class and that in the administration of existing laws the working class would be discriminated against; that my allegations were true the local police department proved to everyone's satisfaction...
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...
...York City. Tammany's Mayor James John Walker beat Republican Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia for the No. 1 municipal office in the U. S. by an eight-to-three margin. The only surprise in the election was a large "protest" vote given Socialist Norman Thomas (174,931 out of 1,314,820 votes cast). Said Mayor Walker: "One great issue was settled-a man can wear his own clothes. . . . My ambition is to make everybody in the city smile. . . . You ain't seen nothing yet." Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me! . . . People...
Indianapolis. The Republican party, hard-ridden by the Ku Klux Klan, stumbled and fell in defeat as for the first time in 16 years the city chose a Democratic mayor, Reginald Sullivan. In similar disrepute was the Klan-Republican alliance in many another Indiana municipality, including Senator James Eli Watson's own Rushville where Republicans were turned out, Democrats turned into office...
...invented by anti-Smith Democrats, "Raskobism" contains the following ingredients: one part Roman Catholicism, one part wetness, one part political irregularity (Mr. Raskob used to be a Republican), one part big business. The religious and prohibition issues were not directly focused by the two dry Protestant candidates in Virginia. The stigma of political irregularity had been allayed by Mr. Raskob's work for the Democracy in 1928; indeed, this stigma was transferred to the anti-Raskobians by their alliance with the Virginia Republicans in this year's primary. But still in the hearts of oldtime Democrats may have...