Word: dealish
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There was no doubt that Democratic professionals would be very happy if Justice Douglas assented. He had the right specifications: he is a Protestant and geographically correct (home state: Washington); most important, he would carry New Dealish weight in the big cities of the East and Midwest...
...Democratic committee also installed a new chairman, Senator J. Howard McGrath, the New-Dealish Rhode Islander who had been Harry Truman's personal choice to run his campaign (TIME, Oct. 6). McGrath had no sooner taken over the chair from ailing Bob Hannegan than he had a chance to demonstrate his ability to duck. The committeemen had prepared a resolution condemning almost in toto the work of the 80th Congress. McGrath spiked the resolution before it came to a vote. He remembered that many a Democrat had voted for Republican-sponsored measures, among them the Taft-Hartley labor...
...party job from ward heeler up. He was his state's governor three times. He demonstrated his vote-getting talent in 1944, when he ran 10,000 votes ahead of Franklin Roosevelt. In the Senate, McGrath has been serious, hardworking, unafraid of the toughest Republican jousters, and New Dealish...
...Governor. To Alaskans who pine for the old order, and to those who long for something new, one man symbolizes the Territory's turbulent stirrings. Throughout his 7½ years in office, chunky, jug-eared Dr. Ernest Gruening, 60, Alaska's New Dealish Territorial Governor, has been an advocate of change and a figure of controversy. He has been during most of his career...
Provisional President Romulo Betancourt's new-dealish Action Democrdtica Party won by a landslide, away out in front of the conservative Copei Party, the middle-of-the-road Democratic Republican Union and the Communists...