Word: democratism
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...which contained some political explosives and, in telling the story of an unparalleled career, again attracted attention to the almost forgotten name of McAdoo. Then last month the students of Southern Methodist University at Dallas listened to some statesmanlike McAdoodling. With war and disarmament as his theme, this able Democrat there delivered an address that would have warmed even the critical heart of his famed father-in-law. Excerpts...
...Their belief in his identity was strengthened when earlier this month he used almost identically the same story in a despatch, to his newspaper. Governor Roosevelt was circumstantially placed at last year's Governors' Conference at French Lick, Ind., and in conversation with "a distinguished Middle Western Democrat" (generally supposed to be James Middleton Cox) saying...
...outside loudspeaker in the home grounds. (We get free entertainment, too: radio, theatre, movies.) Each Friday when the "March of Time" comes on, a hush falls over the crowd of listeners. They like it. Last night at the Home Theatre, two comedians came on the stage, one a Democrat, one a Republican. The boys interrupted their dialog to cheer loud & long-for the Democrat. J. F. WALTON...
...express the hope that this group of representative Democrats, gathered in the capital city tonight on the birthday of a great American, a great Democrat and a great President? express the firm hope that Divine Providence will inspire the mass of American people to a renewal of confidence in the aims and purposes of the Democratic party, to the end that we may supply the leadership that will light the way to progress, peace and prosperity...
Equality, Democracy, Literacy, says Professor Nock, are the bases of U. S. education-all of them misinterpreted today. Equality, to the masses, means that all people are educable. Democrat Thomas Jefferson realized that this is not so when he planned 20 grammar schools in Virginia, in each of which only one student per class would be allowed to remain a full six years, so that "20 of the best geniuses shall be raked from the rubbish annually." Out of these 20, only ten would be allowed to go to William & Mary College. But the Jefferson plan was not followed...