Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexander H. Legge to leave the $100,000 presidency of International Harvester Co. and serve as chairman of the Federal Farm Board at $12,000. Before the "butter brigade" could have at Mr. Legge's "sacrifice" and career, trenchant Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun, an arch-Democrat except where President Hoover is concerned, wrote in "The Great Game of Politics," his daily column, as follows...
Died. Mrs. Adele Wilson Pringle Taggart of French Lick, Ind., daughter-in-law of late Boss Democrat Thomas Taggart; at French Lick...
...thousand or so Republican delegates crowded into Richmond's Shrine temple for a state convention. Mr. Slemp was still smiling wisely when he arose, proposed and had his fellow Republicans nominate a Democrat for Governor. The Democrat was Prof. William Moseley Brown of Washington and Lee University, already nominated by the anti-Smith-Raskob wing of his own party (TIME, July, 1). Regular Republicans and the Democrats who had followed Bishop James Cannon Jr. out of their party at Roanoke last fortnight thus coalesced against the regular Democratic state organization. The band played "Dixie." A platform was adopted without...
...moonshine to suggest that a question of social equality was involved in my wife's going to a White House tea. My wife was not invited because she was white or black, Republican or Democrat. . . . She was invited because she happened to be the wife of a Congressman. . . . These Southern Democrats, these haters, are trying to stir up prejudice and help themselves politically. . . . There can be no question of social equality between races. . . . It is a matter of individual taste...
...being a quiet, unpublicizing executive who has run a big store well, Brother Abraham's chief claim to fame is the Retail Research Association which he organized in Manhattan to effect interchange of operating ideas between big department stores. Like Brother Edward he, normally Republican, was a Smith Democrat. When Prohibition came, he sold his cellar...