Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrat Martin Leo Sweeney of Cleveland, Ohio: "When this Administration can spend . . . almost $300,000 or more to entertain a British King and Queen next month, I think I can afford to vote this extra help for my office...
...Democrat Sam Hobbs of Selma, Ala.: "We may not be statesmen, but we have not a chance to be as good statesmen as we might be because of the incubus of work...
...Moines (to postmasters): "Everything we do should be calculated to assist and encourage private enterprise." Crossing Missouri, Jim Farley listened closely to what people had to say about Democrat Lloyd C. Stark, fair-haired reform Governor. He was careful to avoid Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, upon whom Governor Stark sicked Attorney-General Murphy and got him indicted (TIME, April 17). In Kansas, which went Republican last year, Jim Farley got right down to the grassroots, motored from Salina to Topeka with stops at a dozen towns. Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona were on his course, then California, where...
...talk with the newspaper friend turned priest-Rev. Edward Patrick Dowling, S. J., 40, associate editor of the Queen's Work in St. Louis, distant kinsman of Actor Eddie Dowling. Jesuit Dowling, once a crack baseballer, called "Puggy" by St. Louis schoolmates, worked on the Globe-Democrat before he became a priest in 1931, is today a member of Broun's Newspaper Guild...
...late 1920's California citizens began to clamor for large-scale, low-cost medical care. Last November, when liberal Democrat Culbert Levy Olson was elected Governor, he promised to sponsor a State system of compulsory health insurance. This threat of "government interference" spurred the California Medical Association, which for over ten years had been hatching health-insurance schemes, to announce a counterplan...