Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republicans expected, with the aid of Maine's normally Republican, normally conservative votes, to re-elect Senator Frederick Hale. They hoped to re-elect bald, dapper Representative Carroll Beedy of Portland, and to elect former Governor Ralph O. Brewster to a second seat in the House now occupied by Democrat John G. Utterback. But for two other jobs lost to the Democrats in 1932, their hopes were far from high: Maine's third seat in the House, held by Edward Carleton Moran Jr.; Maine's Governorship, held by Louis J. Brann...
...bale of congratulations!" was what Postmaster General Farley sent Democrat Edward Raymond Burke three weeks ago when that New Dealer snatched Nebraska's senatorial nomination from old-time Democrat Charles W. Bryan...
...only one prominent Democrat, Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, who is himself applying some of Nominee Sinclair's economic principles (see p. 10), expressed joy. Said Mr. Hopkins: "What do I think about Sinclair's nomination? I think it's great stuff. Sure I'm for him. He's on our side. A Socialist? Of course not! He's a Democrat. A good Democrat...
With his radical EPIC program (TIME, Sept. 3), Upton Sinclair defeated George Creel, a liberal Democrat backed by the McAdoo machine, by a 3-to-2 plurality. The greatest Sinclair strength was developed in and around Los Angeles, home of Aimee Semple McPherson, Cecil B. DeMille and Utopia, Inc. At the same time the Republicans nominated by an even heavier plurality a thoroughgoing conservative, Acting Governor Frank F. Merriam. Inevitable result: California's November election will be fought not on party lines but on the issue of economic radicalism and experimentation. That issue definitely jeopardizes the Democrats' chance of carrying...
John William Davis, Democratic nominee for President in 1924, Morgan attorney, a high-minded and thoroughly conservative Democrat...