Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disillusioned men, have sometimes found talent where more snobbish souls would never have thought to look. In 1921, with his haberdashery under the hammer and black days ahead, Truman looked up some old servicemen friends in the Pendergast organization. Truman was a veteran, a farmer, a Mason, a Democrat from three generations back; he had friends all over Jackson County. The machine made him road overseer, then country judge (an administrative post), finally U.S. Senator...
When Republicans won their thumping victory in Michigan last November they pushed out every single Democrat except Highway Commissioner G. Donald Kennedy, whose office was not at stake until the 1944 election. Democrats nursed their wounds and thought hard: if the Highway Commissioner were a good politicker, maybe-with the fat patronage in that office-he could help Democrats beat their way back to power. Only stumbling block: Commissioner Kennedy was no vote getter...
Obligingly, Democrat Kennedy resigned just before year's end, forcing the election of a successor in next month's off-year election. Democrats planned to run popular Murray D. Van Wagoner, who was Highway Commissioner for seven years until he jumped to the Governor's chair in 1941, led the Democratic ticket last November although he failed of reelection...
Married. Gwladys Hopkins ("Gee") Whitney, 37, ex-wife of Multimillionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney; and Corporal Josiah Marvel Jr., 37, ex-politico; in Wilmington. A Democrat, he missed the Governorship of Delaware by 700 votes...
This was more like it. Indiana Republicans who had feared that Wendell Willkie was a Democrat in G.O.P. clothing rose and cheered. Next day a reception was hastily cooked up; Wendell Willkie's old enemies came in droves, no GOPster dared stay away. Then came the final tribute: State Chairman Ralph Gates asked Wendell Willkie for his picture, he wanted to hang it in State Headquarters...