Word: democratism
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...mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into the Wyoming law by a Republican legislature to prevent one-time (1925-27) Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross from appointing a Democrat in case Senator Warren died...
...information, $226,000 for "mileage." The Senate's vote to adjourn, after its refusal to do so last fortnight, came suddenly, unexpectedly. The band of two dozen "Young Turks" (junior Republicans) was beaten in its effort to hold the Senate on the tariff job when all but one Democrat joined with the Old Guard to vote adjournment 49 to 33. With the end of the session fixed, the Senate dawdled over the tariff, finally turned aside to flay its critics. Statistician Roger Babson who had declared that Congress had fiddled like Nero while the stock-market broke...
...newspaper-selling, errand-running, to put himself through school. He was president of his class. From Holy Cross he was graduated in 1893, from the Boston University Law School four years later. At 24 he began to practise law at Fitchburg. At 27, as a "common people's" Democrat, he was sent by a hidebound Republican district in Worcester to represent it at the State House in Boston. He was Massachusetts' Lieutenant-Governor- the first Democratic one in 70 years-in 1913 and its Governor in 1914 & 1915. In 1918 he was elected to the U.S. Senate...
...five-power naval parley in London in January. He would serve as personal aide to his great & good friend Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. Born at Aberdeen, N. C., 46 years ago and brought up in the manner of a Southern gentleman, Advisor Page is, true to family tradition, a Democrat, though he voted for Herbert Hoover last year. A vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in charge of public relations, he plays a vigorous game of golf, sneaks off from his Long Island estate to New Hampshire or elsewhere to fish at the slightest provocation. For 13 years...
...Kirkland, society colyumist of the Tribune; and Artist Frederick Clay Bartlett and his socialite sister; Bishop & Mrs. Charles Palmerston Anderson (he is the new presiding officer of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Mr. & Mrs. Louis Eckstein (he backs the Ravinia Opera); Mr. & Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank (she, a potent socialite Democrat); Mrs. Bertha Baur (socialite Republican); Mr. and Mrs. Arch Wilkinson Shaw (President Hoover consults him on business...