Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year Idaho's election law had been changed to permit voters to enter either primary without regard to previous party affiliation. Evidently many a Borah Isolationist took the opportunity to vote against Internationalist Pope. Representative Clark squeezed him out by almost 4,000 votes, scored the first defeat of an incumbent Roosevelt Senator this year...
Virginia - a field goal and a first down against the New Deal in the renomination of Representative Howard Worth Smith of Alexandria and the defeat of Representative Norman R. Hamilton of Portsmouth. Mr. Smith's opponent was William E. Dodd Jr., 32, son of Franklin Roosevelt's former Ambassador to Germany, picked to run against Judge Smith by Roosevelt henchmen who consider Judge Smith too independent (he helped delay the Wages & Hours Bill). Candidate Dodd was given a campaign manager from Attorney General Cummings' staff, an endorsement by C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis (whose Alexandria home...
Representative Hamilton's defeat was closer, about 19-to-17, by Colgate...
...Deal's Kansas candidates were virtually unopposed. But in the Republican voting came a possible portent for November-the nomination of onetime (1929-31) Governor Clyde M. Reed for the Senate in a heavy G. O. P. vote. Superficial but spectacular was Mr. Reed's defeat...
...ticket mate (for Governor) Lawyer Payne H. Ratner of Parsons, an energetic friend of Alf ("Fire Belly") Landon and Republican National Chairman John Hamilton. Senator McGill's mate will be Governor Walter Huxman, whose renomination was unopposed, whose campaigning ability is not superlative. To Democrats, the defeat of "intolerant" Mr. Winrod and nomination of able Mr. Reed may well presage Senator McGill's downfall...