Word: democratism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quarrelsome capital. Early this month the House passed (215-to-182) an omnibus relief bill backed by Speaker Garner. Using this bill as a parliamentary frame, the Senate struck out all the House provisions and substituted a measure of its own devised by Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner, New York Democrat. Last week the Senate by an overwhelming but unrecorded vote passed the Wagner bill. As they went to conference, the Garner and Wagner bills were alike only in that each called for a public outlay of about $2,300,000,000 to make jobs, stimulate government construction and feed...
Such an atmosphere last week pervaded the opening of the Democracy's national convention at the Chicago Stadium. Fortnight prior, the Republicans had held their cut & dried meeting under the same roof. Their differences were pale and disembodied compared to the issues dividing the Democrats. Arriving early on the scene the anti-Roosevelt forces under Alfred Emanuel Smith had opened a stinging fire on the candidacy of the New York Governor. This party strife a hundred newsmen, ablest of their profession, were on hand to megaphone to the country. On the front page of his nationwide press Democrat William Randolph...
...fair man or woman wishes to be unjust to Mr. Hoover or his administration. No sentence has ever been uttered by any responsible Democrat that remotely reflected on his personal character or integrity. Nor do we hold him or his Administration exclusively responsible for all the evils which have befallen...
House Afire. The keynote was bitterly critical of President Hoover's attitude toward Democratic co-operation on relief and economy legislation. Declared Senator Barkley: "Every effort has been made to deprive any Democrat of the credit due him for his labors in behalf of the unemployed. . . . Congress passed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, the Glass-Steagall Act and created other agencies of temporary resuscitation, with the active, constructive and intellectual assistance of Democrats. But everybody knew as they know now that these measures did not remotely touch the fundamental causes of the disaster and were only designed as governmental pulmotors...
Next to Editrix Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Herald sat Colyumist Arthur Brisbane pecking away, eyes down cast, mouth drooping, at a noiseless type writer. Dedicated with the rest of the Hearst organization to the Presidential candidacy of Democrat John Nance Garner, he had little of interest to say about the Convention, but he, too, considered Reporter Rogers good copy. "It's a mistake about Will Rogers being so rich," wrote he. "John D. Rockefeller Jr., recently in Chicago, is much richer than Mr. Rogers, who if you asked him 'Where is your next million coming from,' would have...