Word: democratism
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...readiness to clinch the wagers when Spotswood D. Bowers, Mr. Gerard's law partner, suddenly recalled a New York law which denies felons, bribe-takers and those who bet on elections the right to vote. Obvious to all was the embarrassing probability that Democrat Gerard would, if he publicly bet his $20,000, be challenged at the polls...
...Portuguese immigrant who became a shoemaker in Philadelphia. His father, "a self-made literate," volunteered as a drummer-boy in the Civil War, was invalided out of the Army of the Potomac when he was 14. He went on to become a successful corporation lawyer, an anti-Bryan Democrat, the author of various respectable treatises on such subjects as interstate commerce, the husband of a Southern lady who presented him with Son John Roderigo...
...Civil Service Commission, headed by Democrat Harry B. Mitchell, professed great enthusiasm at this latest Roosevelt reform. Cocky Republicans claimed their attacks on the President and "General" Farley were solely responsible for bringing it about. But wiseacres pointed out that the order could not possibly embarrass the Democratic machine. If reelected, Franklin Roosevelt has only to reappoint the Democrats now in office, after they satisfy the Commission that they are literate. If Governor Landon is elected, he will have either to rescind last week's order, and thus be accused of wrecking the civil service, or else carry...
...Europe on vacation last week James Watson Gerard, U. S. Wartime Ambassador to Germany and current chairman of the Democratic National Finance Committee, made news by announcing that he had posted $20,000 to be wagered on President Roosevelt's reelection. "I'm offering 2-to-1 odds," trumpeted this old-time Democrat, "and no takers yet. How strange! But there you are. That will show you better than anything else how confident I am of a Roosevelt victory...
Acting Postmaster General for August, September and October will be First Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes, a rotund, nervous man who bounces when he walks, smokes cigarets continuously and is South Dakota's No. 1 Democrat. Wisconsin-born, he studied law at the University of South Dakota, landed in Wolsey to begin practice with $40 in his pocket. He spent $5 for a shingle, collected a $5 fee from a cowman client a few moments later. So popular was Bill Howes as a State Senator some 20 years ago that when a daughter was born...