Word: democratism
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...President appointed Silas H. Strawn, of Chicago, a Republican, and Thomas W. Gregory of Austin, Tex., a Democrat, to investigate and prosecute the alleged frauds. Mr. Strawn, although rated as a Republican, was a supporter of Grover Cleveland, and a partial supporter of Woodrow Wilson. He is a member of the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn and Shaw. Garrard Winston, one of his partners, is now Undersecretary of the Treasury. Mr. Strawn is Chairman of the Board of Montgomery Ward & Co. He is Chairman of the American Bar Asso- ciation's Committee on Legal Education...
...Gregory's appointment was withdrawn when he reached Washington. Instead the President was expected to appoint former Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, a Democrat. In political circles it is generally admitted that Mr. Pomerene would have been a strong contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination this year if he had not been defeated for reelection to the Senate...
Senator Stanley, Democrat: "This Teapot Dome, sir, is a crucible in which the world will test...
...approached my father, a very good business man, with the proposition that he should furnish me with a penny to buy some candy. He told me that we were in a political campaign and there was a probability, a possibility at least, that we were going to elect a Democrat for President. Such an action, he said, would undoubtedly be followed by hard times and therefore it was necessary to economize...
...Nijni Novgorod of peasant parents, he early forsook the land and managed to give himself a university education. Unlike most Bolsheviki, he has not been much abroad; like most Bolsheviki, he has served terms of imprisonment, has been an exile in Siberia. In 1899 he joined the Social Democrat Party, before it split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, actively plotted against the Tsar...