Word: democratism
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...much for notes by a determined Republican on an incorrigible Democrat...
...good. To Senator Wagner and other insurgents who favor more & bigger appropriations for relief flocked many an Old Guardsman seeking to put the President in a hole, many a Democrat who wanted to curry favor with the A. F. of L., many a Senator who believed that five billions for relief was too much, that the surest way of killing it was to boost the figure so much higher that the President could not accept it. Shrewd Huey Long, striving to wreak his vengeance on the Administration, succeeded at the last minute in transferring a critical "pair." Result: the prevailing...
...definitely put itself into that category. The opposition of Republican Senators to the administration in the recent "prevailing wage" amendment vote was no more than blind opposition. Their vote was based on the reasoning that President Roosevelt wants the Relief Bill passed without the amendment, that Roosevelt is a Democrat, that, therefore, he must be opposed...
...side of their hitherto cheery President. Abashed, they filed out in silence. Sole cause for the outburst was that at a previous conference, he had denied that he would ask for State NRA to supplement his new NRA act (see p.11). The news was flashed to Indiana. The Governor, Democrat Paul V. McNutt, who is making a great to-do for passage of a State NRA law, was made to look foolish. The President was annoyed...
...went to the chair. Hence Editor Patterson gladly paid $20 for the copy of the Post with the headline: HAUPTMANN GUILTY BUT ESCAPES DEATH. Next day the Herald appeared with a stinging "open letter" from "Cissy" Patterson. Caption: "You Asked For It-Eugene." C. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat's behavior was most extraordinary. Its extra carried two stories, one giving the penalty as life imprisonment, the other as death...