Word: democratism
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Republican Truman Handy Newberry, onetime Secretary of the Navy under President Roosevelt, defeated Democrat Henry Ford for the U. S. Senate in Michigan in 1918. His right to his seat was challenged and became a large political issue. In view of the fact that Senator Newberry was finally declared duly elected, and in view of the fact that he was never charged with personal wrongdoing. TIME regrets having designated him Senator-suspect...
...Democrats took Baltimore away from the G. O. P. last week. In a tepid municipal election, Democrat Howard Wilkinson Jackson was chosen Mayor by a record-breaking majority of 63,000 votes, which sent Republican Nominee William Albrecht back to bookbinding. Mr. Jackson served as the city's chief executive from 1923 to 1927, was called the "best Mayor Baltimore ever had" by four-time Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie. A farm boy who went to Baltimore and built up a large insurance business, Mayor-elect Jackson, now 54, is a genial, handshaking politician who asks every stranger his first...
...file, would give him just what he wanted to do. He wears corduroy breeches, a mackinaw, and a woodsman's boots and cap. He hums "The Rr-hiver Shannon" and when, with his broad brogue, he asks "What's the matter with Al Smith?" the audiences in Democrat towns start clapping. The picture is a comedy which critics passed off with an indulgent phrase or two when it was given as a play on Broadway last year but which the public unaccountably transformed into a hit. It is a better movie than it was a play...
...born in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Mild of manner, blond, well set up, he made precedent last autumn by getting himself elected to the State's chief legal post. Not only is he one of the youngest (37) to hold the office, but the first Democrat in eight years. In 1918 he emerged from the Army a pursuit pilot, although he never got to France. While working for J. P. Morgan & Co., he studied law at night school, was not admitted to the bar until four years ago. His prominence in American Legion affairs has greatly benefited...
Fenway--"The Millonaire". George Arliss, the aristocrat of the screen turns democrat, in a filling station milieu...