Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself elected to the Senate if National Boss Franklin D. Roosevelt would help him. The President helped, to the tune of a White House luncheon at which Pennsylvania was promised all kinds of good things under the New Deal (TIME, Nov. 5). Result: Boss Guffey became the first Democrat to be elected to the Senate from Pennsylvania since...
...defeat of Republican Senator David Aiken Reed caused particular rejoicing around the White House campfires. As a rich and reactionary Pittsburgher, as the Senate spokesman for Andrew W. Mellon, as the close ally of Pennsylvania's manufacturer and bankers, Senator Reed personified to Roosevelt Democrats all the things the New Deal was against. Capitalizing to the limit on Roosevelt prestige and brazenly comparing the $678,000,000 poured into his State as relief and loans by the Roosevelt Administration to the $12,000,000 by the Hoover Administration, Democrat Guffey went about Pennsylvania lauding the President...
Thirdly, the name Republican and Democrat proves itself to be nothing more than a tag. Neither the winning nor the dying group stand for their basic principles any longer with the result that there will probably be a realignment of parties, even if under the same name. Internal dissension in Democratic ranks should gradually make way for a new division such as conservatives and liberals. Fourthly and most important is the realization that the New Deal will proceed to its logical conclusion, with reactionary and Tory Republicans unable to impede its course...
Sherman Minton, Democrat, was leading Senator Arthur Robinson, Republican, in the Indiana Senatorial contest. LOCAL RETURNS Governor 800 of 1716 Curley (D) 309,636 Bacon (R) 225,586 Goodwin (I) 33,421 Senator 800 Walsh (D) 388,758 Washburn (R) 201,501 Lieutenant Governor 350 Haigis (R) 90,000 Hurley (D) 60,000 Secretary of State 350 Cook (R) 95,000 Santosuosso (D) 50,000 Treasurer 350 Dionne (R) 80,000 Hurley (D) 60,000 Attorney General 350 Warner (R) 85,000 Dever (D) 50,000 Congressman No Cambridge Precinots Russell (D) 10,000 Luce...
...Utah *King Colton 75 of 561 8,932 6,425 Vermont Martin *Austin 89 of 248 11,047 16,293 Virginia *Byrd Page 1142 of 1742 84,000 23,000 Wisconsin Callahan Chapple 81 of 2914 3081 3068 * +R. LaFollette 5094 *Incumbent * **Farmer-Labor * +Progressive CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR STATE DEMOCRAT REPUBLICAN California Sinclair Merriam 1675 of 10721 168,481 189,535 Connecticut *Cross Alcorn 81 of 169 231,525 129,881 Idaho Ross Stephan 103, of 792 5544 5083 Iowa Herring Turner 223 of 2453 31,217 27,246 Kansas Ketchum Landon 442 of 2691 36854 41,463 Maryland *Ritchie...