Word: democratism
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...Down the weekend estuary sailed President and Mrs. Coolidge with Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Publisher Frank E. Noyes (President of the Associated Press), Democrat Arthur P. Dennis (new member of the Tariff.Commission). Their ship went a little out to sea in preparation for a possible June cruise to the summer White House at Swampscott, Mass. ¶Mrs. Ethel Barrymore Colt paid an hour's call on Mrs. Coolidge, then chatted a bit with the President. ¶Mrs. Coolidge set to work on the $50,000 repairing of the White House. The Green Room has faded, must be done over. The elevator...
...Bernard Shaw of twenty years ago, who refused to admit that Shakespeare was worth reading or acting, has mellowed into a genial democrat of the theatre. Quite recently he has concluded that Shakespeare was his equal in ability, and now proceeds to lay down the laws of sound drama according to what "Shakespeare and I" think they ought to be, as expressed in the works of the co-equal stars. "For some years a conviction has been coming over me," says Mr. Shaw, "that Stratford-on-Avon is my birthplace." This is the greatest tribute he could pay to Shakespeare...
Senator Reed, anti-League Democrat, was present to argue for the newspaper. Would he be so kind, asked Mr. Taft, as to join his case with the case of The Baltimore Post, exactly similar? All present in the crowded court room glanced at Newton D. Baker, matchless pro-League orator, counsel for the Baltimore newspaper. Senator Reed politely declined the offer. Old antagonism flashed and vanished as the law ground...
...ballot altogether. It is fair to assume, however, that a very large majority of Socialists will place the Republican cause (not imminently threatened, for the Monarchists do not intend to change immediately the Republican form of Government) above their religious preferences. There are also fairly numerous dissident Catholic and Democrat factions which might conceivably vote the pro-monarchist ticket...
During nearly 25 years, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey of Denver, Col., has had to fight for his office about a dozen times. By appointment or election, with or without party help (he is a Democrat in not very good standing), he has always got it. Last November, the Republicans (reputed to be led by the Ku Klux Klan), swept the state. But Lindsey held his seat by 117 votes. A recount was demanded. Last week, he appeared to be slipping. Meanwhile, appeals have gone through the Nation for financial and moral support. Some of the old enthusiasm for Mr. Judge...