Word: congress
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From Maine in September to California in November, it was a Democratic year. In this week's elections Democrats edged Republicans in the races for gubernatorial seats, increased their 88th Congress holding in the House from 233 to something in the order of 268-273, jumped the Democratic Senate margin by at least a dozen seats...
...Committee's questioning disclosed the fact that he had made at least fifteen dishonest statements on his Civil Service applications. Flanagan admitted these dishonesties. Although the Committee and the Senate as a whole obviously did not favor Flanagan's nomination, Adams was determined to push his appointment through Congress. The White House was saved this embarrassing effort when Flanagan resigned, "for the good of the Republican Party...
...greatest Congressional victory since Roosevelt's 1936 triumph, the Democrats effectively broke the power of the Republican party in the Midwest and the Far West. Capturing almost two-thirds of each House of Congress, the Democrats made the United States into a legislative one-party country for the next two years...
...Congress, the liberals of both parties finally have enough strength to override the Southern Democrat-Republican coalition which has dominated Congress for the last 20 years...
Massachusetts voters tended to be less sympathetic to the Democrats running for Congress, although the G.O.P. did lose at least one seat. The loss came in the 13th district where former State Representative James A. Burke defeated Republican William W. Jeness by a margin of almost...