Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard Johnstone McMurray, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, who beat Republican Isolationist Lewis D. Thill in a Milwaukee German district which sent Socialist Victor L. Berger to Congress in 1918 as an anti-war representative. Son of a Baptist preacher, short, sturdy Democrat Howard McMurray, 41, is a licensed pilot, onetime Interstate Airlines operations and sales manager, onetime insurance statistician. Socialite women worked in his campaign headquarters, labor leaders supported him on the radio. His platform: post-war internationalism...
Will Rogers Jr., serious-minded son of the late, famed humorist; youthful (29) publisher of the Beverly Hills (Calif.) Citizen; now a second lieutenant with a tank destroyer battalion at Camp Hood, Tex. To beat labor-baiting Leland M. Ford, Democrat Rogers made only one recorded speech, which was broadcast four times. While in the Army, he continued to write a column for his paper. Excerpt from last week's: "The first time I cranked and fired the 75 ... I couldn't hit my hat. Cranking the blooming thing is like patting your head and rubbing your stomach...
...Senate almost continuously since 1881. An all-out supporter of the Roosevelt foreign policy, Republican Robert Hale, 52, had to defend himself in the election against an article he wrote for Harper's Magazine in 1936 entitled: But I, Too, Hate Roosevelt* revived by toothy Democrat Louis J. Brann. Maine's voters liked Bale's defense: "I am probably the most outspoken advocate in Maine of President Roosevelt's foreign policies. Also, I guess I am the most outspoken critic of his domestic policies...
Michigan voters were embarrassed by their riches. For Senator they had to choose between statesmanlike Democrat Prentiss Marsh Brown, generally rated one of the dozen ablest men on Capitol Hill, and famed racket-busting Republican Judge Homer Ferguson, a great & good public servant. For Governor, they had their choice of big, able, incumbent Democrat Murray Delos Van Wagoner, or big, able Republican Secretary of State Harry F. Kelly, one of the most popular politicos Michigan ever...
Thus Michigan voters were left to decide the election on strictly partisan lines: more than in any other State the result depended on what-in each voter's mind-the labels Republican and Democrat stood for. C.I.O.'s Michigan political machine, strongest in the organization, worked mightily for the Democrats (though some of its leaders personally preferred Kelly). Michigan's traditional G.O.P. strength worked in favor of Ferguson and Kelly...