Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states: Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon and Pennsylvania...
...Emily Taft Douglas, daughter of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, distant cousin of William Howard Taft. Her husband, a University of Chicago economics professor on military leave, was defeated for the Senate in 1942, is now a Marine captain serving in the South Pacific. Third new Congresswoman is Connecticut's grey, matronly Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, political economy professor in a Connecticut college, who won a surprise victory in a normally Republican district...
Back to Washington this week went Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, her seat in Congress safe for two more years. This was the news that went with her: in two years Clare Luce had risen from the position of an interesting novelty-a good-looking Congresswoman -to an eminence as a main target of the Roosevelt Administration...
...embattled Fourth District of Connecticut became well-known all over the U.S. for the first time this autumn, as the whole New Deal poured money and speakers into Fairfield County to try to defeat her. Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Orson Welles, Clifton Fadiman and members of what Mrs. Luce called "the whole Broadway-Browder Axis" were all guest stars in the anti-Luce show. The President, himself, asked for her defeat and on election night, when the first returns seemed to augur defeat for the Congresswoman from Connecticut, Franklin Roosevelt told his Hyde Park neighbors: "I think [that] would...
Nutmeg State. For the second time in a gubernatorial election, Connecticut's able, internationalist G.O.P. Governor Raymond Baldwin took the measure of the Democrats' New Dealing, ex-Governor Robert A. Hurley...