TIME Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.

Current subscribers for full access. Not a TIME subscriber? .

National Affairs: Democracy's Day

Bitter winds swept through the streets of Harrisburg one day last week, but every Democrat in the city glowed with a great inner warmth. Side by side the nation's No. 1 Democratic boss and Pennsylvania's No. 1 Democratic boss grinned under their top hats. Row on row sat some 100 Democratic Congressmen, who had had a House holiday declared for the occasion. Just ahead of Postmaster General Farley and Senator Guffey marched George H. Earle, 44, wealthy Philadelphian who shed his Republicanism in 1932, contributed handsomely to the Roosevelt campaign fund, was rewarded...

Time.com on Digg

POWERED BY digg

Quotes of the Day »

ADELE, multi Grammy-award winning singer, in an interview given to Vogue before last Sunday's ceremony, on her plans to take a lengthy break. Her last album 21 was inspired by a failed relationship but the Londoner is now "madly in love"
For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages. Duplicate and change name as necesssary to distinguish.