Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubletalk, one fact was clear: the President wanted tall, toothy, honest, earnest Senator Mead. The President's choice was based on the practical belief that Jim Mead was the only Democrat who could get American Labor Party support, needed to beat Tom Dewey. Jim Mead, with four secure years in the Senate ahead of him, and with at least 50 friends among the 51 bosses committed to Bennett, was cagey. He craftily named his own candidate: Jim Farley...
Died. Joseph John McAuliffe, 65, famed election forecaster, managing editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat for 26 years; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Louis. In 26 years he guessed wrong on the Presidential elections only twice, on the Missouri gubernatorial elections only once. He retired...
...most important ever, but judging from states which have already had primaries, it is clear that the people are not aware of the importance of seeing to it that they have a chance to vote for a good man on November third. In Cambridge the Democratic primary is particularly important, not only because a Democrat always wins, but also because the issue is clear cut. Neither of the major candidates, James Michael Curley ond Thomas H. Eliot, need introduction. Curley, who is still returning to Boston $500 a week of "borrowed" funds, is strong in Charlestown and stands a very...
...take exception to this statement? "In the 25th Pennsylvania district, Representative Charles I. Faddis, Democrat, profoundly isolationist, named widely as a Congressional obstructionist (TIME, May 25), had insisted on his right to an X-card (for personal, unlimited gasoline supply). Six days later he was soundly beaten by Dr. Robert Grant Furlong." (TIME, June...
...interventionist majority of New York, no appeal to labor and liberal groups, and who is personally disliked by many of the hardheaded local bosses who are perforce supporting him. The thought of such a candidate, with weathervane views on all important matters, running against his own handpicked Democrat, John J. Bennett Jr., the State's Attorney General, made foxy Jim Farley beam...