Word: democratism
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...sensible than that? Every businessman wants to pay off his debts with an inflated dollar when business is good, so why shouldn't the Government? And yet the Republicans insist on wasting their time making derogatory remarks about a very sensible suggestion simply because it comes from a Democrat...
...years ago a committee came to see me from an upstate rural county. . . . They then told me that they would let me know what the Republicans were paying for votes that year, and that if we would add a small amount to the price, we could probably elect the Democrat. A few days before the election they . . . told me that the Republican buying-price was a dollar and a half a vote, and that if we could raise the ante to a dollar seventy-five we would be successful. It is hard to admit that I was as gullible...
Secretary of the Navy, New Hampshire's John L. Sullivan, well-traveled Under Secretary of the Navy, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, a faithful Democrat and good friend of National Chairman Bob Hannegan...
Screamed tough, wiry Communist Leader Otello Barbi: "You cornacchiacce, you dirty black ravens, you always turn everything into an instrument of propaganda in your favor. You just want all poor to be forced to sign on to the parish list." Salvatore Gallo, a stocky Christian Democrat, rose from his café table in the square: "You volponaccio rosso, you sly red fox, you know very well that the parish helps all the poor. It's only that you want the poor to be forced to come to you Communists." Barbi rushed up: "You lying cornacchia, we think only...
...rotund, jolly Communist butcher, came to Barbi's assistance: "I am the only Communist member of your Clock Committee. I know that it has done nothing because," and he pointed a swollen, accusing finger at the priest, "you, Father Bernardoni, wanted it to do nothing." Cried Christian Democrat Gallo: "Why did you sit on the Clock Committee watching it do nothing?" Checchi jumped over the table, shouted: "I wasn't going to do propaganda for Father Bernardoni." The priest interrupted: "At least, have respect for the habit I wear...