Word: coattailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of them shared in common the handful of ideas that Harry Truman campaigned on. They also shared among them a hatful of political savvy. Many of them had been stronger than the ticket, had got to Congress on their own merits. Ideologically, they were not coattail riders of Harry Truman either; they were men who had gotten their political doctrine from the same source: the collection of ideas known as the New Deal...
...greeting me. I had presumed he was busy with deep thoughts. . . . 'Do they make good candy here?' he said. Before I could pull myself together and reply he answered himself: 'They must-my wife likes it.' " Crossing a street the President yanked Starling's coattail. "Better be careful," he said. "That was a woman in a Ford, and that's a bad combination. One of them struck me in Northampton and bruised...
...State. The Democrats took over Massachusetts' gold-domed State Capitol. Tub-thumping Maurice J. Tobin, 43, Boston's mayor for the past seven years, an expert machine politician and personable Irishman, won by an F.D.R. coattail over the G.O.P.'s Horace Cahill...
...They were opposed to the New Deal's centralization of government. Straw-in-the-wind: one of the strongest States' rights declarations came from Utah's Herbert B. Maw, longtime coattail-rider to the New Deal...
...Coattail Coasters...