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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mississippi's Democratic primary was the first ballot-box test of 1943's anti-New Deal sentiment in the South. The result produced one hard fact: whoever wins in the run-off primary on Aug. 24, Mississippi will have an anti-New Deal Governor for the next four years...
Last week lanky Irving Dilliard reported in the New Republic on a trip through Oklahoma, checked the Democrats' work. When Herbert Hoover's 1928 victory swept Republicans into State jobs, the Democratic legislative majority promptly put through a law separating the Presidential ticket from State office ballots, so that small-fry Democrats might be re-elected even when their Presidential candidate went down. Then last November, Edward H. Moore, a Democrat-turned-Republican, trounced New Dealer Josh Lee for the U.S. Senate. Democrats in the State Legislature saw new storm signals, decided to act again. This time they...
Anyone who wishes to vote Republican in 1944 now cannot merely put an "X" at the top of one ballot and be done with it. He must mark a Republican ballot for President, another for Congress, a third for State and county offices. Oklahoma Democrats were prepared for the whirlwind...
Three men will be selected from '46, while four will represent '45. All men who have been at Harvard for at least one term will be eligible to cast their ballot for nominees of their respective class. This will include the NROTC and V-12ers of Kirkland and Eliot Houses for which special arrangements will be made to enable them to make their selections...
Automatically on the ballot as a result of their appointment to the Nominating Committee, those in this group include Radford Brokaw '46 and M. Muchado Osborne '45 of Adams House; William W. Dunn '46 and Dryden P. Morse '45 of Dunster House; and Kent C. Fry '46 and S. Taylor Boggs '45 of Lowell House...