Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brought up first on the unanimous consent calendar, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Bill needed a two-thirds vote after Democrat Kent Keller of Illinois objected to postponing consideration, called for suspension of the rules. Opposition to the plan then became explicit...
...Democrats also can-and sometimes do-jail Democrats. The high moral character of Democrat Frank Murphy, who says he has never made an appointment for purely political reasons, permits no recognition of party lines if Evil is involved. Attorney General Murphy's men put mighty Boss Pendergast of Kansas City behind the bars (TIME, May 29). They went after judges they thought were crooked (see p. 17). High-minded, capable judges and law enforcement officers replaced unsavory political characters...
...soon after that. The Catholic Church, left without a member on the bench since Chief Justice White's death, clamored for a Catholic. The Eastern hierarchy wanted young Martin Manton of New York. But Taft and old George W. Wickersham plugged for another Catholic (who also was a Democrat, most Catholics being Democrats), one from the Northwest. So, Pierce Butler of Minnesota was appointed instead of Martin Manton, who stayed on the bench of the mighty second Circuit Court of Appeals, became its irascible, domineering senior judge. He never reached the Supreme Court...
This otherwise passing incident was duck soup for California's Republican Attorney General Earl Warren, who was after Mark Megladdery on charges more serious than nocturnal brawling. Mark Megladdery was secretary to Governor Frank Finley Merriam until that aging (73) Republican was deposed last year by Democrat Culbert Levy Olson. Just before Frank Merriam stepped down, he appointed his 33-year-old lawyer-secretary to the Superior Court of Alameda County. Judge Megladdery was assigned no cases by his fellow judges because at that point to Attorney General Warren went Banker Joseph H. Stephens, a member of the State...
Thus last week the watchful reporters who cover Pennsylvania's Legislature voted their conviction that Democrat Homer S. Brown of Pittsburgh's "Hill" area has plenty of ability. What made the vote news: Homer Brown is a Negro...