Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Affairs Test (TIME, Oct. 21), question No. 20 reads as follows: "Though he said plenty in his acceptance speech, Willkie did not say that: 1) Roosevelt has courted a war for which the country is not prepared. 2) He would like to debate Roosevelt. 3) He was a liberal Democrat until a few years ago. 4) He favors old-age pensions and unemployment insurance. 5) Military conscription is undemocratic and unnecessary in peacetime...
...half-hearted supporter of the President, disliked by New Dealers, Connecticut's Senator Francis T. Maloney nevertheless coattailed in past a smart Republican adman and schoolmaster, 43-year-old Paul Lincoln Cornell. Delaware elected (6-5) an even more conservative Democrat: James Miller Tunnell...
...most distinctive faces in U. S. public life belongs to Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, a Boston blueblood and Harvardman who resembles a well-worn U. S. antique. This week Massachusetts demonstrated that it liked his visage better than his opponent's, blank-faced Irish Democrat Paul A. Dever...
Baldwin, pipe-sucking Willkie stentor, who had actually balanced the State budget during his able administration. He was beaten by Democrat Robert A. Hurley, State Public Works Commissioner, who was running for his first elective office...
...Democrat, eh?" I pressed him. "The Hurley bird is worth two in the Bushnell. Or do you think if Willkie wins it will all come out in the Walsh...