Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Idaho, Democrats swept everything before them. Franklin Roosevelt beat Alf Landon by nearly 2-to-1; Democrat Barzilla W. Clark swept into the Governorship; to both seats in the House of Representatives Democrats were returned. Only exception was Governor C. Ben Ross, best campaigner on the State Democratic ticket, who ran against William E. Borah for the Senate. Republican Borah -who did not mention Alfred M. Landon in the entire campaign-polled upwards of 125,000 votes, practically the same number as Franklin Roosevelt. Said he afterward: "I anticipate the next six years will be tremendous years."Then he went...
...have battled, battled for everything I got." he told an interviewer. At 75 he was battling opponents in Nebraska regular Republican and Democrat unrecognized President Roosevelt, he has spoken endearingly about Senator Norris, weapons: three speeches a day, a lifetime of struggles that has conferred on rugged farm-trained body the mantle of honest Senator Norris college days were days of postponment. Born in Ohio, he worked on farms during summer. Student at Baldwin University in Ohio Northern Indiana Normal School, he taught science during intervening years in order to continue school. In 1883 he received a law degree from...
...that his onetime campaign manager and private secretary, Will G. West, candidate for Governor and rated one of the State's smartest politicians, would run well ahead of him on the Republican ticket. But when Franklin Roosevelt swept even Alf Landon's home State, he carried a Democrat, Walter A. Huxman, along to fill Alf Landon's chair on Jan. 1. Farm-born near Pretty Prairie, outspoken, aggressive Governor-elect Huxman served on Kansas' State Tax Commission under onetime Governor Harry H. Woodring. Acting Secretary of War Woodring and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy T. Helvering...
...Governorship of Michigan. Month ago the redhaired, freckled, dynamic onetime Mayor of Detroit was so worried about his own chances that he got his Presidential patron to tour the State, sing his praises at every station stop. For a time on election night it looked as though Democrat Murphy's fears had been justified, but when the Detroit returns came in it seemed clear that Republican Frank D. Fitzgerald, the incumbent, had lost...
Massachusetts. A loser himself, Democratic Boss James Michael Curley had the consolation of seeing State Treasurer Charles Francis Hurley defeat Republican John W. Haigis to succeed Curley as Governor. Strapping, vigorous, 42-year-old Governor-elect Hurley, who likes boating and biography, was in 1930 the first Democrat to be elected State Treasurer in 19 years, went on to become the only man ever chosen thrice for that office...