Word: democratism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evening Franklin Roosevelt picked up his telephone and made one of the most significant telephone calls that he had made since taking office. He was calling to smooth the feathers of a very ruffled Democrat, asking the aid of Carter Glass to prevent the liberals of the Senate from forcing the New Deal considerably farther Left than Franklin Roosevelt was ready to go. When the President sent his $4,000,000.000 work relief bill to Congress he did not consult Senator Glass. When it got to the Senate Appropriations Committee, he did not confer with Chairman Glass. Instead he kept...
...device was the Wickersham Report on Law Observance and Enforcement, which President Hoover chose to ignore (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Last winter President Roosevelt found himself in his first hot water following precipitate cancellation of the country's airmail contracts. Adopting the familiar strategy, he telephoned that good Democrat, roly-poly Publisher Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution, asked him to chairman a Federal Aviation Commission to investigate all U. S. aviation. Mr. Howell, whose ignorance of aviation appalled even himself, was glad to do his old friend a favor...
...Harrison of Mississippi. The point at issue was Mr. Ickes' antipolitical administration of the Virgin Islands. Secretary Ickes had insisted that Paul Martin Pearson, sexagenarian Chautauqua organizer appointed by Herbert Hoover as Governor of the Virgin Islands, should not be removed to make room for a deserving Democrat. Senator Harrison had a job-seeking friend named T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson of Mississippi who in 1928 gave up a seat in the House to run for the Senate and lost. Lest his friend run for the Senate in 1936, Senator Harrison got Postmaster General Farley to induce Attorney General...
...Washington there was incredible gossip to the effect that behind the St. Louis indictments lay an Administration desire to oust Republican Will Hays as tsar of the industry and install a Democrat, possibly Postmaster General Farley...
Governor-elect Fitzgerald had already been unfortunate. On Nov. 6 the voters honored him with a Republican State Senate, a State House equally divided between Republicans and Democrats. Then the fire in the Kerns Hotel at Lansing killed off three House Republicans-elect, only one Democrat-elect, leaving him a Democratic House (TIME, Dec. 24). With this setback his job grows harder for he has promised to exempt food from the State's 3% sales tax. That will knock $10,000,000 off the State's revenue and $12,000,000 is what the State has been spending...