Word: coalitionist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meant depriving one of them of a place on the ballot. The Republican organization put up Milwaukee Manufacturer Julius Heil. Democratic chieftains and the State New Deal machine got behind young Jerome Fox, who resigned his job as an HOLC attorney to make the race as a Roosevelt man. Coalitionist Henry, no New Dealer and deeming the Republican nomination better than the Democratic, thereupon called on his Democratic supporters to vote for him in the Republican primary...
Through bewilderment, perversity, or both, Wisconsin's voters turned out last week to give Coalitionist Henry the Democratic nomination by a wide margin over New Dealer Fox, Republican Heil the Republican nomination by a still wider margin over Mr. Henry. Governor La Follette, weakly opposed by a Socialist in his own primary, won a respectable 4-to-1 victory. Although the failure of the coalition to jell gave him the advantage of another three-cornered fight in November, a new obstacle to his unprecedented fourth term appeared when the Republicans outpolled the Progressives by 60,000 votes, regained momentarily...
...Hindenburg (Coalitionist...