Word: democratism
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...Cigaret Democrat. Jubilant Democracy, back in office for the first time in 16 years, swarmed up Boston's Beacon Hill, packed themselves in under the great gilded dome of the State House to watch Joseph Buell Ely become Governor. Out on the Common guns boomed. Governor Ely's inaugural address recommended: 1) a $20,000,000 bond issue to help unemployment; 2) legislative action to memorialize Congress to modify the Volstead Act; 3) a curb on labor injunctions; 4) investigation to regain for New England full control of the Boston & Maine R. R. and the New York, New Haven & Hartford...
...tall and strong, balder and homelier than ever, with snapping blue eyes and a white mustache more bristly than ever, Governor Bryan frankly avows a purpose to drive out "monopolistic business." Into the discard has gone his black skull cap which made him a marked figure at the 1924 Democratic National Convention and helped win him the vice presidential nomination on the Davis ticket. Though a Democrat, his chief political support is a large bloc of independent voters who also insure the regular re-election of Republican Senator George William Norris...
...ghosty Nebraskan spat out in the direction of the White House. "I was fighting for the Republican party and its upbuilding and puri- fication when Mr. Hoover himself was a resident and voter of Great Britain. . . . When he came to this country from Great Britain he became a Democrat. . . . He remained a Democrat until he secured a public office under a Republican Administration. ... I concede he has a right to change his politics as often as he changes office if he wants to, but I haven't found it necessary to do that myself." Third Party? Replies...
...College, letting the People elect their President directly. Only thus, said he, would an independent have a chance. He also railed gently against Owen D. Young as the candidate of what is called the Power Trust and plunked mildly for New York's Governor Roosevelt as a "progressive" Democrat who would probably "appeal most" to himself & friends. Republican regulars said nothing. Executive Director Lucas rested quietly in the bosom of his family at Louisville. At the White House not even a political mouse stirred. The Significance. Third-party talk is a sobering thing, especially when a real split...
Much to the surprise of many a regular North Carolina Democrat, the Senate last week confirmed (47-to-11; the appointment of Frank R. McNinch, a 1928 North Carolina Hoovercrat, to be a Democratic member of the reorganized Federal Power Commission. Approved at the same time were the four other commissioners: Chairman George Otis Smith, Ralph B. Williamson, Marcel Garsaud, Claude L. Draper. The McNinch appointment precipitated a great deal of senatorial controversy as to just what constitutes a Democrat. Five Democratic members of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee disapproved Appointee McNinch's Democracy, voted against recommending his confirmation...