Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...timely assassination. This occasions the climax of the picture--the bulletridden corpse plus a tender photo of the corpse's children. This note of tragedy serves to emphasize the amusing sequences of the film, the clever contrast of comedy and pathos is effective. This is the technical triumph of the film...
...party whose triumph Boss Farley was celebrating was not the party of 1924 nor the party of 1932. It was both and something more. Two years ago Mr. Farley took command of what John Jacob Raskob with lots of money and the brains of Jouett Shouse and Pressagent Charles Michelson, had built up from the wreck of 1928. Since then Democracy's leader in the White House had become a national hero. While still retaining the conservative South, the Party captivated North and West with a new brand of social reform and economic experiment. But, more important from...
...Dealers were not the only victors in last fortnight's great Democratic Sweep. Many a humble ward-heeler, many a red-nosed boss of a local machine, beamed and burbled. For there were few places in the land where the New Deal's triumph was not a golden benison to Democratic political machines. No less than 25 Democratic Governors were elected to supply their Democratic followers with patronage, the stuff that machines are made of. For all of them it was a glorious victory...
...invincible. When he died in 1925 he bequeathed his fame and following, somewhat prematurely, to his sons. In large measure the La Follette strength was purely personal, hence not to be handed down. In his younger Son Philip the old Senator visualized a successor who could continue that personal triumph. As an orator Phil had his father's style but not his father's quality. As a politician he had his father's temperament, but not his father's wisdom...
...last week he could see little semblance of a national contest between the Republican and Democatic parties. So far as was visible to the naked eye not one stone had been placed upon another to rebuild the House of the Elephant. This year the Republicans will regard it a triumph to carry Pennsylvania...