Word: democratism
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...youngest member of Congress is George Hamilton Combs Jr., a minister's son from Missouri. Now aged 29, he represents the 367,846 inhabitants of Jackson County. He is a Democrat. Last week he arose in the House to make one of his infrequent speeches. It was a speech addressed to his fellow Democrats, whom he flayed roundly for their post-election faultfinding with National Democratic Chairman John J. Raskob...
...Youngest Democrat Combs had this much to say: "For eight years we [Democrats] have been wobbling along without leadership and without clearly visioned policy. For the first time in eight years the Democratic party has had vitality, it has had aggressiveness, it has had that which makes for an intelligent and for an aggressive campaign leadership. I do not believe that any of us feel that the business man has any monopoly on virtue, or that a man taken from the ranks of business is necessarily holier or more pious than the man who comes from the ranks of politics...
...often and far enough to cause some people to suggest that the Secretary of the Treasury's calculations are not purely arithmetic, that they are sometimes tinctured with policy if not politics. In his own party, Mr. Mellon has been frequently flayed by Michigan's Senator Couzens. Democrats in the House have kept up an intermittent fire. Last week, Democrat John Nance Garner of Texas, minority leader of the House Ways & Means (revenues) Committee, renewed the attack...
...upon these two items-Greek loan and Steel refund-that Democrat Garner pounced in a speech designed to embarrass Mr. Mellon thoroughly. Said Mr. Garner: "In order to induce you to pass it [Greek loan], he [Mr. Mellon] made a misleading-and the facts show, it seems to me-a deliberately false statement as to . . . the prospects of our Treasury...
...claims, and claims similar, for taxes dating back to 1917, were not made until 1923 or later because the claimants had not known there was any chance of recovery. The claims have not yet been paid because of the intricacy of opposing contentions, the delays of tax appeal. Democrat Garner wanted to know why Mr. Mellon could not have delayed such refunds a little longer...