Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hampshire Republican Robert Blood was still considered Governor-elect one week after the balloting, by 2,814 votes, with Democrat Clyde Keefe still talking of a recount...
...Massachusetts there was still recount talk, although last figures gave Governor Saltonstall 9,000 votes over Democrat Paul A. Dever...
...Minnesota silo-huge Harold E. Stassen, youngest (33) Governor of them all, who had expected to ride to victory with his friend Wendell Willkie on the handle bars, pedaled home barely leading two opponents: Farmer-Laborite Hjalmar Petersen and Democrat Ed Murphy...
...campaign survey of newspaper sentiment. Editor & Publisher found 64% of the U. S. daily press (with a combined circulation of 20,709,156) for Republican Nominee Wendell Willkie. For Franklin Roosevelt were only 23% (circulation: 7,552,137). Neutral or undecided were 13%-which meant in many cases normally Democrat papers, which would not declare for a Republican candidate, but had no use for Roosevelt either...
...military CCC to turn the tinkering genius of young America loose on tank and plane repair and maintenance." The Nazis did it, he says, why can't we? Let no one worry if this looks as much like the end of democracy as the beginning. Says Democrat Grafton: "Secret contempt for the democratic process is revealed when use is made of the expression that we must be careful not to lose our democratic rights while fighting to protect them." His tough, all-out club-waving version of democracy would make even some New Dealers cringe. Others will recall that...