Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress: He is about as regular in his votes as a Democrat can be. He voted for tax reduction and flood control in 1928, for the Jones law and the 15 cruiser bill in 1929. He voted in series for the three farm relief bills in recent sessions, for radio control, for the Boulder Dam, against reapportionment. He is now fighting the tariff bill...
News that the Niagara-Hudson Power Corp. "Morgan Combine," had bought Frontier Power Corp., "Mellon Company" (see p. 41), sent billows rolling across the political sea. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (Democrat) declared that the fact that 80% of New York State is now served by one hydro-electric corporation made it necessary for him once again to urge the Legislature (Republican) to create a body of public trustees to develop St. Lawrence waterpower for the people. He called attention to the fact that although the power company may own the bank of the river, the state owns...
Louis Kroh Liggett, drug tycoon, Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts, contributed to the messiness of things Republican by charging that James Michael Curley, Democrat, had kept the religious issue alive during last year's campaign by "dastardly work"- circulating anti-Catholic literature. Last week Boss Curley sued Boss Liggett for civil and criminal libel...
Massachusetts Democrats, elated at the "messiness" of Republican politics, sought out one Marcus A. Coolidge, Fitchburg manufacturer, asked him to stand for the Senate. Alive to the added danger of a Coolidge Democrat, Senator Moses at the White House declared: "The name of Coolidge is exclusively a Republican asset in Massachusetts...
Sherwood Anderson, storyteller, spoke on "The Newspaper and the Modern Age," explained he had become a small-town editor (Democrat and Smyth County News in Marion, Va.) because life was dull and vulgar in the Modern Age. "Newspaper writing is writing," he said. ". . . [it] can be as direct, as noble, as fine as any other kind of writing. It is a record, bad or good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will...