Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three hours after he arrived home in Fayetteville, Ark., scholarly James William Fulbright was whisked off to a country party, complete with hillbilly band. Democrat Fulbright, listening to Arkansas Democrats, found that they were satisfied with Congress. But they had a few reservations about Mr. Fulbright himself, about his sudden emergence as postwar planner (TIME, June 28). Said Farm Bureau Head H. S. Mobley: "Congressman Fulbright's talkin' about the peace over there. That's all very well, but what about over here, where we can't even get our milk picked up?" Farmers wanted...
...would allow him only 30 days' supply of raw materials, he could not get labor, his business was going to pot, he had spent the whole morning poring over a new OPA ruling on rayon hosiery and its meaning was still not clear. Jim McCord, a good Democrat, looked, nodded. His constituents are exasperated by bureaucratic bungling, are solidly behind Congress in its fights with the President, but as good Southern Democrats will not revolt from the Party or the President...
...night in the lobby or grill of Seattle's Olympic Hotel, where he talked to hundreds of Seattleites. One day he dressed up in kilts, marched down to Victory Square to greet a group of visiting bagpipers from a Vancouver shipyard. The talk he heard made Democrat Magnuson uneasy. Said he: "The temper of the people is alarming. We've got to streamline these war agencies or the people will swing too far and have them abolished entirely...
...York Post, also 100% New Deal, editorialized: "The evidence is too strong to be dismissed that the liberal, internationalist Mr. Wallace is being jettisoned in favor of a conservative Democrat with more partisan political appeal in preparation for the 1944 campaign...
...reasoning behind the Worker's sudden affection for Boss Hague is that he is a stanch supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, who is winning the war. New Jersey will choose a new governor next fall and he must be a Democrat, to silence the "copperheads" and "labor defeatists" who are angry with the President. And Boss Hague is still the boss of New Jersey...