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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Policeman in the House | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: Governors | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Governor Meets Governor | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...Coattail Coasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Only experts knew that the Democrats had good cause to worry; that poor local candidates, bad local management, plain Roosevelt coattail-riding was throwing whole States away. As the voters moved off the fence, local estimates of trends set up the Nov. 5 results about as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shape of the Vote | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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