Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson, Democrat but no New Dealer, said last week: "Even a child knows that a political revolution comparable to the Harding landslide is sweeping this nation. . . . The New Deal is through! The Democratic Party owes it to the people to draft General Marshall for President. ... He is the man of this tragic hour...
...history. Last week, up for reelection, gangly, earnest Frank Lausche (rhymes with how shay) got 71% of the vote-the biggest percentage in Cleveland's history. He captured 32 of the city's 33 wards, lacked only a hundred votes of carrying the 33rd. A Democrat, he swept Republican wards with ease. On his coattails, Democrats elected their first city council in 30 years. He was the only Democrat of stature above the Mason Dixon line to win in last week's Republican sweep...
...third largest margin in New Jersey's history, the Republicans took over the governorship from Democrat Charles Edison-who didn't seem to mind. Wealthy, 69-year-old Walter Evans Edge (Hoover's Ambassador to France, ally of the senior Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate fight against the League of Nations) piled a plurality of 128,000 votes over Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, supported by Jersey City's Frank Hague, the Communists, A.F. of L., C.I.O., and Frank Sinatra...
Carol of Rumania, now of Mexico, called on his countrymen to revolt and join the United Nations, only two weeks after he had hired Pressagent Russell Birdwell to build him up as a democrat. Birdwell released the call to the news papers, appended a note announcing that he had dutifully registered with the Department of Justice as Carol's agent, added: "The fact should not be construed as approval of the United States Government of the contents of this release...
...politicians who hoped to use Professor Cross discovered quite early in the game that he was onto their curves. When he was petitioned in 1932 by the Democrats to serve as their political white hope, Wilbur Cross went to work as quietly as usual to get a questionable Waterbury Democrat dropped from the State ticket. Cross did not say he would not run if Daniel J. Leary was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. But he did insist that the nomination for Governor be held in abeyance until after the nomination of a candidate for second place on the slate. Worried...