Word: democratism
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Talk of the proposed "coalition" ticket with a prominent anti-New Deal Democrat receiving the Democratic nomination was laughed...
Better than any living man, Senator Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi represents in his own spindle-legged, round-shouldered, freckle-faced person the modern history of the Democratic Party. For all but a fraction of the years since the fledgling Republican Party rose to power in 1860, the lot of the Democrats in national politics has been to denounce and deplore. For all but a fraction of his 17 Senatorial years, Pat Harrison, a Democrat by temperament as well as by birth and conviction, has played his Party's historic role with superb skill and enjoyment...
...Saxon of Yale was a democrat until 1933. Harvard he studies under Dr. Felix Frankfurter and main inspiration of the Democratic "brain trust" Yaleman Saxon's committee of nine assistants analyzing the New Deal "to expose its fallacies...
...takes two sides to make an issue, and in the California campaign which followed, Alf M. Landon was definitely not an issue. Puffed by Hearstpapers, he got courteous treatment, many a kind word from Hoover supporters. Their cry: Is William Randolph Hearst, a New York Democrat, to become master of California Republicanism? When California Republicans marched to the polls last week and said "no" by 344,000 votes to 256,000, that verdict was almost universally interpreted as a thoroughgoing rebuff to William Randolph Hearst and Frank F. Merriam...
...first time since he became President, Franklin Roosevelt last week made a political speech in Manhattan. The occasion was the Jefferson birthday dinner* of the National Democratic Club. Its importance was that New York is rated a close state in 1936 calculations. Any serious wavering on the part of New York City's nominally heavy Democratic majority might cost Democrat Roosevelt New York's 47 votes in the Electoral College. With Alfred Emanuel Smith and James John Walker notably absent, the powers of Democratic politics in New York sat down to dine with President Roosevelt in the Commodore...