Word: democrat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colorado, Senator Alva B. Adams (80% New Dealer lightly marked for Purging) was nominated without opposition. His opponent in November: Republican Archibald A. Lee of Denver. Renominated for Governor was crude Democrat Teller Ammons, to face Republican Ralph L. Carr...
...Michigan, Republicans, in numbers far greater (3 to 2) than the Democratic primary voters, chose Frank D. Fitzgerald to run in November against Governor Frank Murphy, who ousted Mr. Fitzgerald in 1936. No Senator was involved: all incumbent Representatives (eight Democrats, nine Republicans) were renominated except Democrat George Sadowski who lost to Mayor Rudolph Tenerowicz of Hamtramck...
...mother eagle pushing her young one by one out of their eyrie over a sheer abyss, letting them flutter far earthward, swooping to save them just before they crashed, carrying them aloft to repeat the spartan experiment until they learned to fly. Representative Scrugham, a fairly New Dealish Democrat, was unopposed for renomination in last week's primary, will fight it out in November with Republican Harry Stewart, former mayor of Reno. But the Senatorial race in his party brought to mind Mr. Scrugham's eagle story. Young Albert Hilliard, Reno lawyer, tried his wings against roseate...
Bradford served his worldly apprenticeship as secretary (1931-34) to Democratic Governor Ely, Eliot as assistant solicitor in the U. S. Department of Labor, where he helped write the Social Security Act. Now these almost identical twins, self-consecrated to the cause of better government, are both in politics under opposite labels. In Middlesex County, in which one-quarter of Massachusetts' people live, a better element group, determined to oust Republican District Attorney Warren L. Bishop, whom they accuse of backsliding, drafted Republican Bob Bradford to run against him in the primaries September 20. In the 9th Congressional District...
...Eliot-a Democrat since, aged 10, he alone voted for Woodrow Wilson in a class poll-is opposed by three Irishmen, in a heavily Irish district. His chance-rated even by local experts-lies in the Irish vote's splitting. Last week one of his opponents, Carroll Lehane, crashed an Eliot rally in Brighton. Instead of letting Mr. Lehane be bum's-rushed out. Candidate Eliot, trained to sportsmanship on the playing fields of Cambridge, invited him to speak. If nominated, Tom Eliot's harder fight will come in November, against crafty old Republican Robert Luce...