Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Senator Austin read from Mr. Amlie's writings statements such as: "Capitalism cannot be saved. . . . It is not worth saving." Mr. Amlie explained he held those views before the Supreme Court unbent. He did not now believe a capital levy would be necessary for five years or more...
...Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia Lawyer Francis Biddle, former chairman of NLRB and counsel to the Congressional investigators of TVA. To the seat vacated by "Borrowing" Circuit Judge Martin T. Manton in New York, he appointed on his own hook distinguished District Judge Robert P. Patterson, a Republican...
Depression I pulled him into public service (State Relief, NRA, NEC, Housing). A Republican by family precept, he had long been a friend of Franklin Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Delano, in the early New Deal years came to know and admire the President. So he was not astounded when onetime NEC Director Frank Walker met him in the lobby of Washington's Hotel Mayflower shortly after the 1936 elections, suggested he visit the White House next day. He was sworn in as Assistant Secretary...
...Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria (Manhattan) was dressed one night this week with smilax, gladiolas, palms and fine napery, as it is almost nightly for conventions of furriers, bankers and the like. Guests were a national collection of Republicans assembled by the New York political club of that name to pay off its debts (at $25 a plate) and perform an act (hooked up to the nation by radio for two hours) called "Victory Through Unity." All the newly-elected Republican Governors and Senators were to have taken part. Other Lincoln's Birthday engagements at home detained several...
...mounting importance of Joe Strecker as a Reddish bug under the national microscope was further emphasized when, to defend him before the Supreme Court, up rose Lawyer Whitney North Seymour of the eminent Manhattan firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Seymour, a Republican libertarian, won freedom in 1937 for Red Angelo Herndon from Georgia's 71-year-old insurrection law. For Joe Strecker he argued that his case paralleled Herndon's, and that in view of the Communist Party's disclaimers, its members constitute no immediate menace such as the 1918-20 deportation law had in mind...