Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hurja has at his elbow a compendious black volume. He can quickly turn through it to any state or subdivision. If he opens it on the 16th Congressional District of Illinois, he finds a salmon-pink chart indicating that the Congressman there is a Republican. If he were a Democrat the sheet would be white. Under the Congressman's name are the returns at the last election, the results of all polls and straw votes, public or private, taken in that district. There is the date of the primary, a line marked Chief Basis of Campaign with notations such...
Interesting point about Democrat Hurja's prediction about the South and West is that the Gallup poll, which at present is probably as accurate a sample of public sentiment as is available, appears to confirm it in general...
...tide of the election, it will be necessary for Republicans first to gain much strength, to capture and consolidate much ground that is still highly debatable. This is exactly what Republicans hope that they will do when their candidate is picked at Cleveland. This, too, is exactly what Democrat Hurja & friends assume the Republicans will not be able to do, after the firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. really takes the field...
Attorney General Charles Joseph Margiotti is said to control the votes of 200,000 Pennsylvania Italians. A candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1934, he turned Democrat after losing the primary, won a place in Governor Earle's "Little New Deal." When he read in the Inquirer that his law partners were supposed to have sewed up several Pennsylvania counties on the basis of collecting back taxes for a worth-while percentage of the receipts, he declared: "I am not, nor ever have been, a party either directly or indirectly to any such plan . . . nor does...
Cried Representative Martin F. Smith of Washington, a Townsendite Democrat: "Certified public accountants have approved the plan's finances. . . . We welcome the investigation but we fear we are fiddling here while Rome is burning." There was no halting the tide of 240-to-4. That evening Robert E. Clements, secretary-treasurer of the Townsend organization, scornfully declared the investigation to be "pure and unadulterated political persecution. . . . These monkeys have played right into our hands. They are giving us the biggest piece of publicity we could ever have hoped to get. We shall be exonerated...