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Ohio's other hopeful, John Bricker, cried: "It's a wide-open race. Anyone can come in." California's Earl Warren was still reluctant, though the liberal, Democratic Los Angeles Daily News had begun tub-thumping on his behalf...
...earnest. Still out in front was Thomas E. Dewey, returned to New York's governor's chair with the biggest majority any New York gubernatorial candidate had ever rolled up (680,000).-As before, there were others breathing down his neck: Ohio's Bricker and Taft, California's Warren, Michigan's Vandenberg, Minnesota's Stassen, Massachusetts' Lodge. As for the Democrats-now Harry Truman's troubles would be the same as those which confronted Hoover after...
...public recognized a few. Handsome Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts had been a G.O.P. Senator before he went overseas in the Army. Alabama's able John J. Sparkman was Democratic whip of the last House. The white-thatched, placid face of Ohio's John Bricker-who had unseated down-the-line Democrat James W. Huffman-was already familiar...
...also a certain amount of grim satisfaction for the Roosevelt Democrat. For if the election proved anything, it has proved the factuousness of the Democratic hope of salvaging victory by playing tweedledum to the Republicans' tweedledee. With such figures as Henry Cabot Lodge, William Stratton and John W. Bricker representing the majority party in the Congress, the democratic party can furnish an effective opposition only by reassuming its liberal character and discarding the leadership of Bourbon Democrats and myopic members of the Truman coterie...
...That's Truman," said the Sage, "and we'll try not to Lausche things up. Don't give me no Guffey if I'm wrong, because Tafter this I may Landon the political doghouse. Reece for my crystal ball, and be careful or you'll Bricker...