Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other magazines, and all of the newspapers of the U. S., always considered, and rightly so, that the late Senator Bronson M. Cutting was one of the most powerful, influential, beloved, and "admired" citizens of the State of New Mexico, and in 1928 Senator Cutting was elected as a Republican U. S. Senator by an overwhelming majority of something around 30,000 votes. In 1934, when TIME Magazine's "unadmired" Senator Chavez ran against Senator Bronson M. Cutting for a seat in the-U. S. Senate, Senator Cutting, according to the official returns, was elected over your "unadmired" Senator...
Kicking Around. Besides hunting Manhattan's murderous Racketeer Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter (in a race with Republican District Attorney Tom Dewey) and other Public Enemies, Mr. Murphy's men are also hounding down Louisiana's corrupt Democratic politicos. Having convicted Kansas City's Democratic Boss Pendergast and indicted Philadelphia's Republican Publisher Moses ("Moe") Annenberg for income-tax evasion, having prosecuted Federal Judge Martin Manton for "selling justice" in Manhattan and proceeded against big-shot Lawyers Louis Levy and Paul Hahn for their dealings with Judge Manton (rulings on their disbarment await the outcome of Judge...
Outside his immediate official family, Frank Murphy has had Franklin Roosevelt's help in strengthening U. S. district and circuit courts, so that he can count on at least one high-calibre judge in each jurisdiction. In Manhattan, he counts on Circuit Judge Robert Porter Patterson, a Republican. In Philadelphia, it is Circuit Judge Francis Biddle, a New Dealer. New tone has been sought for the bench by picking eminent law teachers. Example: Herschel Arant, dean of Ohio State University's Law School, now a judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals...
...Democratic Party will not survive as an effective force in the nation if the voters have to choose between a Republican tweedledum and a Democratic tweedledummer...
...Goodyear is opinionated, poker-playing Paul W. Litchfield, who has tough Steelmaster Tom Girdler on his board. Litchfield is a great dirigible booster, a chum of Germany's Zeppeliner Dr. Hugo Eckener. In 1936 he wanted to nominate Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh for Vice President on the Republican ticket. Last spring he urged the U. S. to barter (as it soon did) surplus cotton for a stockpile of rubber which a war would shut...