Word: democratism
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...Nelson Haugen, 74, longtime U. S. Republican Congressman from Iowa's 4th District, co-author of the famed McNary-Haugen farm relief bill vetoed in 1927 by President Coolidge; of heart disease brought on last winter by influenza; in Northwood, Iowa. When he was displaced March 4 by Democrat Fred Biermann, he had completed 34 consecutive years in the House, an all-time record...
Rule of Three Out of the White House with a great fanfare of headlines last week issued a civil service reform that was supposed to make every deserving Democrat quake in his boots. President Roosevelt was proposing to take all postmasters out of politics and put their jobs on "a strictly civil service basis." For this purpose Post-master-General Farley had prepared a sweeping executive order which the President signed along with a recommendation that the next session of Congress enact permanent legislation to the same end. Without bothering to study the President's order closely Democratic leaders...
Mather appointed Mr. Cammerer assistant director of the service in 1919. When Mr. Mather's ill health retired him in 1929, Associate Director Horace M. Albright, a Republican, succeeded him. Mr. Cammerer, a potent Democrat in Virginia, where he lives with his wife at Lyonhurst, succeeds Mr. Albright. The Mather tradition goes on. Director Cammerer, tall, browned, 49 and a good mixer, has not seen his new domain in years. While supervising east ern parks, he has puttered expertly in his two-acre Lyonhurst garden, chewing an unlit cigar. In the Eastern service he has already erected a monument...
...Coolidge's Minnesota campaign in 1924. He was the sort of honest man Coolidge appreciated and five years later, in the early days of booming 1929, that President named him to the Federal Trade Commission. Although a Republican he was elected chairman last January in time to execute Democrat Roosevelt's attack on bad security selling. He helped write the Securities Act, and today stands eager to enforce...
...that he could sympathize with the Puerto Rican love of big families. They were also pleased to find that he was Catholic-the first Catholic governor in the 35 years of U. S. occupation. There their information stopped. What they did not realize was that Governor Gore, prominent Florida Democrat publisher of newspapers in Fort Lauderdale, Deland, and Daytona Beach had thumped loudly for Roosevelt, was now picking his political plum. Last week Governor Gore flew to Puerto Rico to take up his duties and announce a New Deal. As his airplane approached San Juan, he seized a microphone, broadcast...