Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States, 33 will elect Governors this fall. Of the 33, six are in the South where Republicans do not expect to elect candidates, seven are West, where Republican machines have broken down completely. Of the 20 left. Republicans are sure of only three and have no better than an even chance in most of the rest. Of the 34 Senators up for election this year, Republicans have a fair chance of electing nine, but the fight between Rooseveltian and Conservative Democrats is likely to hold the centre of the stage. Anyhow, the Democratic majority in the Senate is so overwhelming...
...Secretary Earl Venable. Running it calls for craftiness, energy and a head for vote-getting detail, three qualities for which Joseph William Martin Jr., however little his name has appeared in the headlines, is pre-eminent in his party. In 1936, the abysmal failure of Republican strategy was nowhere better demonstrated than in the fact that money was overconfidently squandered trying to win in Congressional districts where the fight was hopeless, saved in districts where the fight was close. Overconfidence is not one of Joe Martin's faults. Less sanguine than the Gallup poll, he visualizes not much more...
...Pendergast announced after the 1936 campaign that active management of his machine would thenceforth rest in the hands of Nephew James Michael Pendergast, he has by no means relinquished his duties as policy maker. Day after last week's election, Democrat Pendergast, after exclaiming that "this is a better tonic than a carload of medicine," indicated that he might be a more stub born obstacle to Democrats Clark and Roosevelt than optimists might think. Having invited reporters into his office for one of his rare interviews, the old boss announced that he was going on the warpath and that...
What stormy Cinemactress Bette Davis likes better than anything else are cinema roles she can get her claws into. Last week Bette took a disdainful look at the script of Author Faith Baldwin's Comet Over Broadway, said it reminded her of weak tea, flatly refused to play in it.*Promptly her studio, Warner Bros., suspended her, cut off her $3,500-a-week salary for the six weeks it may take to find her another picture. Commented Bette, whose rebellion against Warners nearly two years ago wound up in the British courts: "I feel we will have legal...
...Less concerned with the strength of the brew than with his place at table, Warner Crooner Dick Powell this week refused to play in The Garden of the Moon because Actor Pat O'Brien had a better role than his. For Crooner Powell: twelve weeks' suspension...