Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor of California the last four years, Culbert Olson has had a wearily difficult time. A New Deal Democrat, he had to contend with a Republican State Senate, an almost evenly divided State Assembly, a hostile press (at one time he flatly refused to see any Hearst reporters) and a Republican attorney general. Last week it seemed as if his attorney general-serious, hard-working Earl Warren-might resolve all Culbert Olson's difficulties by throwing him out of office this November...
...moonfaced, bespectacled Dean Alfange, 44, lawyer, author and onetime unsuccessful Tammany candidate for Congress. Although his was the only name presented to the convention, politically unknown Dean Alfange said what pleased him most was that the convention was "free and un-bossed." He identified himself as a New Deal Democrat...
...when Democrat Herbert H. Lehman got a narrow 64,000 plurality for Governor over Republican Thomas E. Dewey, 419,000 of Lehman's 2,391,000 votes were cast by the A.L.P. Since that time the A.L.P. has claimed to hold the balance of power in New York politics. November's election will put its claim to a real test...
...York City, other pre-Pearl Harbor non-interventionists won renominations by decisive majorities. Among them were Representative William B. Barry, Democrat from the Second District, and Communist party-line follower Representative Vito Marcantonio, who was named by his own American Labor Party and the Democrats and Republicans, besides...
...Stratton's platform is a supplement, on post-war problems of the U.S. and Britain, to the May issue of FORTUNE, which he mailed to every important Democrat in Idaho. During three terms in the State Senate, he never attended a lobbyist's party, never asked a fellow Senator for a vote, and passed three controversial issues by the main strength of his eloquence...