Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrat (and American Labor Party-endorsed) Lieut. General William Nafew Haskell, 65, was launched by the Independent Citizens' Committee. Bluff, ramrod-stiff General Haskell is a veteran of the Philippines (1902) and St. Mihiel (1918). Said he: ". . . Presidentially ambitious Tom Dewey wants his own hand-picked successor...
...Victory Through Air Power, next week takes wing in a new field. He will write a thrice-a-week column on air tactics and strategy for the McNaught Syndicate. Already signed up: 85 papers, including a fistful of big ones (New York Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Washington Star, Chicago Herald-American, Pittsburgh Press...
...Governors' convention in Denver, North Carolina's J. Melville Broughton cracked: "We are going to win the war whether the next President is a Republican, a Democrat or Mr. Willkie...
Tutt is a democrat (with both a small and a capital D). He claims to be a "qualified New Dealer." When the Columbia Law Review remarked that a contribution from Tutt, which it had just published, aroused the suspicion that Tutt was a bit of a fascist, the old man cracked back that "people who lived in glass houses had better refrain from throwing stones. . . ." Whereupon Columbia offered, and Tutt accepted, an honorary LL.D...
...Republican victory might have even more dramatic effects on the saga of Tom Dewey. He will campaign for the G.O.P. candidate. Franklin Roosevelt will throw his prestige and political power behind the Democrat. If Tom Dewey can win that fight, his name will grow great among the delegates to the Republican national convention, sitting to name a candidate who has even a fighting chance to head off the Fourth Term...