Word: democratism
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...from the White House to the Senate with Mr. Garrett's went two other names that caused much less elation. One was Irvine Luther Lenroot, onetime (1918-27) Wisconsin Senator, to sit also on the Customs Appeals bench; the other, Henry H. Classic, Maryland Democrat and once a very much abused U. S. Tariff Commissioner, to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...
...Ohio and Illinois, where it is often crucial. The white gentlemen, exponents of the "New South," urged Mr. Hoover to buttress and continue the revolt against the "black machines" of the South, to cultivate the "lily-white" movement by which it is hoped to Republicanize permanently many a Southern Democrat whose party faith was shaken by Rum and Romanism...
...close of the Senate's debate brought strange sights. It brought an arch-Democrat, Mississippi's tart Harrison, to President Coolidge's side as leader of the fight against the time-limit. It brought the Republican Old Guard into open opposition to their outgoing party leader of the past five years. It brought Nebraska's acid, aloof Norris out in renewed denunciation, of the Old Guardsmen. Half in earnest, half in joke, he berated them for their "hard and ungrateful" attitude toward President Coolidge...
...take this as a personal insult. I have worked for the Republican Party for five years, and, if I may say so, have had some success in getting-out-the-vote. My husband, a Democrat, has failed utterly in trying to do the same for his party...
Died. Oscar W. Underwood, 66, Democrat, member of the House and Senate for 32 years; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his Virginia home, Woodlawn...