Word: democratism
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...Most Democrats took him at his word and excluded him from their 1932 plans. For two years he sank out of political sight while his Empire State Building began to lift its high head over Manhattan. But when the 1930 Congressional elections came, Al Smith like an old warhorse, sniffed the smoke of battle. Massachusetts Democrats wanted him to help elect Marcus Allen Coolidge to the Senate. He went to Boston and received an ovation that for noise and fervor equaled his 1928 welcomes. Democrat Coolidge was elected over Calvin Coolidge's Republican candidate. The Brown Derby still had plenty...
...Smith wondered why not. What if he had said he would not seek office? His friends wanted him. He had taken a bad beating in 1928 when times were good. By rights, he could tell himself, he deserved another crack at the Presidency when times were bad and a Democrat could...
...presidential bait before lesser candidates. He hired the presidential suite at the Congress Hotel. Would Candidate Roosevelt go to Chicago, appear before a deadlocked convention to win the nomination? At Albany the Governor laughed, talked of "hot weather reports," would not say yes or no. John E. Mack, Poughkeepsie Democrat, onetime State Supreme Court justice, was selected as the Roosevelt nominator...
Thus last week did the Congressional Record tersely note the death of Representative Edward Everett Eslick, 60-year-old Democrat of Pulaski, Tenn. Representative Eslick was addressing the House in favor of the Patman bill to pay the Soldier Bonus in full with new currency. Not a hale man, he had worked hard preparing his speech. During its delivery he grew excited when pestered by questions from the members. Suddenly he uttered a short, sharp gasp and slumped to the floor. One hand caught wildly at the flimsy reading stand before him. The official stenographer reporting his speech tried...
...office boy in Washburn Crosby Co., three years later became its youngest salesman. He was sales manager and a director of the company when he left to go with Commander-Larabee. He is credited with having sold more flour than any man in the U. S. A stanch Democrat, he recently offered to wager $1,000 he could name every plank to be adopted at the convention...