Word: democrat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sundown most of the picnickers began to straggle back to the mainland (the clubhouse has overnight accommodations for only about 20). All proclaimed the outing a great success. Said one good Democrat: "It was a good party. There was all we could eat, and more than we could drink-and only two people passed...
...Republican candidate, Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, had been a Democrat until the day before his nomination. Now, with the added blessings of the Liberal and Fusion Parties, grey-haired Judge Goldstein was belaboring Democrats right & left. Nightly he cried that "Tammany's tin-box boys" were fixing to loot the city. Mild-mannered Judge Goldstein had once been secretary to arch-Democrat Al Smith. He now had the backing of another Governor: Tom Dewey...
Understandable Man. The third major candidate was someone that any visitor could understand: a triple-dyed, up-from-the-ranks Democrat, and no question about it. He was stocky, scrappy William O'Dwyer, ex-Brooklyn District Attorney, ex-Brigadier General, who once studied for the priesthood, became a bartender, hod carrier, cop and magistrate...
Among the Germans: Paul Wandel, editor of Berlin's Communist newspaper Deutsche Volkszeitung; Willi Schroeder, onetime Communist deputy in the Mecklenburg provincial government, Edwin Hörnle, oldtime Communist leader and Reichstag deputy; Eugene Schiffer, 85, Liberal Democrat and once Reich Finance and Justice Minister; Dr. Wilhelm Fitzner, Social Democrat, a lawyer who had served a three-year term in a concentration camp; Dr. Ferdinand Friedensburg, 58, Christian Democrat, former Berlin police official and ex-head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute; Helmut Lehmann, Social Democrat, freed from a concentration camp by the Russians last April...
...Louis, whose big three daily newspapers are closed by a strike, got itself a new paper last week. Its publishers (the Newspaper Guildsmen and three backshop unions of the strike-bound Post-Dispatch, the Star-Times and Globe-Democrat) hoped it would not live long. So did St. Louis readers, who found the skimpy four pages of its first issue an inadequate substitute. To start their St. Louis Daily News, Guildsmen wangled a first allotment of 16¼ tons of newsprint from WPB (which will allow any new daily paper that much), persuaded a south St. Louis neighborhood publisher...