Word: democratism
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Chairman Sam Jackson shouted: "No Democrat alive is entitled to boos from anybody!" The boos stopped...
These were some of the reasons why Sidney Hillman is one of the most important men in Chicago this week. The gentle, chronically ailing labor leader is not a delegate to the convention; he is not even a registered Democrat. But behind the scenes his power is great...
...Democrat Al Smith beat him unmercifully in 1924. He lost the governorship by 109,000 votes, though Calvin Coolidge carried New York State by 870,000. From then on, Young Teddy never won an office. His two big political posts-Governor of Puerto Rico and Governor General of the Philippines-came to him by Presidential appointments. Later, the jest was that the Oyster Bay Roosevelts were out of season. He lived quietly in a $90,000 home he built in 1938 at Oyster Bay, served successively as board chairman of American Express and vice president of Doubleday, Doran...
...Leopold Schwarzschild, a German Jew who once was also a German idealist and democrat. The book that gripped Winston Churchill is World in Trance, a burning, raging indictment of the Versailles era - "years of lofty dreaming and low demagogy . . . the era of the empty phrase . . . the age of complacency . . . the years of self-destruction." When the book was published in 1943, it got almost no notice. But the book and its current sequel, Primer of the Coming World (Knopf; $3), were news last week because...
...leader of the Italian Communists, ostentatiously attended High Mass at a Naples church and conferred with Monsignor Giovanni Montini, acting Papal Secretary of State. Afterward, Togliatti said: "We respect religion and we ask that the Church respect us on the basis of mutual tolerance. . . . The Communist, Socialist and Christian Democrat [Catholic] parties have mass followings. . . . There is no reason why Italy's three great mass parties cannot be mutually accommodating...