Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...post-election words of Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, who sees eye-to-eye with Franklin Roosevelt on socio-political reform, "The political sashay has not been perfected." On the plus side of their tally sheets the Democrats could chalk up only California, North Dakota and Maryland, where they won previously Republican governorships; Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, where they staved off Senate losses, and New York where they safely retained both Senate seats and re-elected their Governor by a squeak...
With few notable exceptions (Senators Wagner in New York, Downey in California, Bone in Washington), arch-New Deal Democrats were defeated. Democrats such as Governor Lehman of New York and Senator Clark of Missouri, both of whom differed with the President on the Supreme Court, as well as those like Senator Tydings of Maryland whom the President tried to purge, were conspicuous among the survivors-a triumph for the old-fashioned politics of Postmaster Farley over the politics of the White House Janizariat...
Other New Republicans: South Dakota's Harland J. Bushfield, Wyoming's Nels H. Smith, Minnesota's Harold Stassen, Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall. Iowa's George A. Wilson, Idaho's C. A. Bottolfsen. New Democrats: Maryland's Herbert R. O'Conor, California's Culbert Olson, North Dakota's John Moses...
John W. Otvos '33, of Beverly Hills, California; Frederic E. Pamp '39, of Evanston, Illinois; Gilbert N. Plass '41, of Cleveland, Ohio; Thomas J. Pressly, '40, of Knoxville, Tennesse; Allen E. Puckett '39, of Chicago, Bernard Rivin, '40, Scotland, South Dakota; Gerald P. Roeser '40, of Reading Pennsylvania...
...Pennsylvania, James H. Keet, Jr., Springfield, Missouri; and Mark E. True, Council Bluffs, Iowa, For the Holmes Club: Horace B. Bent, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Ward B. Coe, Riderwood, Maryland; William H. Morris, Rochester, New York; Horace G. Nebeker, Ogden, Utah; Thomas J. Miller, Verona, new Jersey, and James A. Moore, California, Maryland...