Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pendergast and his machine went out to show what they could do. As it happened their efforts were not really necessary. St. Louis, normally Republican, gave Democrat Truman a 50,000 majority; other sections of the State added another 75,000. According to census figures 62½% of Missouri's population is old enough to vote and Kansas City has about 400,000 inhabitants. Kansas City turned up with 248,000 registered voters-62% of its total population. A few more thousands on the voting lists and it would have looked as if something was crooked. On election...
Instead of a well established line-up on one side of the fence or the other, there has been not only a mad scramble for sunny places on the fence, but a desperate shifting from one side to the other. Here is a Democrat attacking all the tenets of the New Deal philosophy, yet shouting his support of the New Deal. There is a Republican, the traditional strong-government man, damning too much government. Everywhere are men of both parties successfully hiding their ideas on every thing except their allegiance to Washington and Lincoln. Here is Mr. Farley jumping...
North Dakota. Vindication was the issue?vindication of deposed Governor William Langer (TIME, July 18). Mrs. Lydia Cady Langer ran in her husband's place against Democrat Thomas Moodie. But North Dakota's farmers, for all their past devotion to William Langer, cast their ballots firmly against his wife, chose as their next Democratic Governor the onetime railroad brakeman who today edits the Williston Herald...
California, The resounding defeat of Democrat Upton Sinclair of Governor came as a surprise to no one but the ex-Socialist (see p. 16). Upon his election, Acting Governor Frank Merriam, with perhaps more truth than he intended, called the result "a rebuke to Socialism and Communism...
...Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston with the enthusiastic if somewhat juvenile support of Son James Roosevelt got a better office out of the New Deal than the Ambassadorship of Poland which he spurned When Franklin Roosevelt offered it last year. Without the support of many a potent Massachusetts Democrat and in spite of Republican Gasper Bacon's hammer & tongs attack on his record, Votegetter Curley piled up a majority for Governor bigger than the Democratic majority...