Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Should a Democrat win, it would spike any attempt to draft Tom Dewey at next year's G.O.P. convention. Reason: he could not afford to turn the state over to a Democrat. Such a result would also give Democrats a chance to boast that the Republican tide which set in last year with Tom Dewey has begun...
...Wendell Willkie tarred with the Democratic brush? Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News, bitter Willkie foe, relentlessly tells its 2,000,000 daily readers that Willkie was once a "Tammany Democrat." Willkie opponents within the G.O.P. sneer at his One-Worldliness as an imitation of Henry Wallace. Many a plain G.O.P. voter wonders from time to time...
Last week lanky Irving Dilliard reported in the New Republic on a trip through Oklahoma, checked the Democrats' work. When Herbert Hoover's 1928 victory swept Republicans into State jobs, the Democratic legislative majority promptly put through a law separating the Presidential ticket from State office ballots, so that small-fry Democrats might be re-elected even when their Presidential candidate went down. Then last November, Edward H. Moore, a Democrat-turned-Republican, trounced New Dealer Josh Lee for the U.S. Senate. Democrats in the State Legislature saw new storm signals, decided to act again. This time they...
...Mussolini's place stood no democrat. Aging (71), stiff-backed Martinet Pietro Badoglio had never been counted an extreme Fascist. When the Blackshirts were marching on Rome he looked on contemptuously, offered to clean them up. He had opposed Mussolini's war against Greece, had become the scapegoat for the abject Fascist failure there. He had sided with high Italians who resented the alliance with Hitler and the swelling Nazi arrogance in Italy. The camera's eye had once caught him, alone and defiant among a group of officers, declining to follow the Duce in the Fascist...
...arch-Republican Gannett slant, growled: "If you want to make a political bureau out of a news bureau, you had just as well not open it, and you had better look for another bureau manager. I'm not a Republican. I'm a real Jeffersonian Democrat. But I'm a newsman, nothing else . . . and if I take over any news bureau, it's going to be a news bureau...