Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrat Frederic Rene Coudert, New York attorney: "I do not believe in the theory of the indispensable individual . . . that theory . . . leads to dictatorship...
Louisiana's sugar planters, smarting un der Henry Wallace's restriction quotas, were reported going over in droves to the G. O. P.-in Louisiana's third (Sugar Bowl) district, a Democratic candidate for Congress withdrew in favor of Republican David W. Pipes Jr. (a Democrat too until 1940). In Florida Willkie clubs popped up over the State, and a onetime Democratic Governor, Gary Augustus Hardee, took up Willkie's banner. And in Texas Peter Molyneaux's Texas Weekly declared: "There are millions of Americans who do not think President Roosevelt is indispensable, who believe...
...President Roosevelt was by all odds the strongest Democratic candidate, despite the Third Term. After the Republican nomination, voters stood 47.1% for Willkie, only 25.9% for a Democrat other than Roosevelt...
...Dartmouth, Nobel Prizewinners Dean George Whipple of Rochester University, Dr. George Minot of Harvard. ("I am very much pleased that this type of citizen is coming out for me. These men represent the very best in our intellectual and social life. . . .") So did President Charles Seymour of Yale ("a Democrat since Woodrow Wilson...
...Voice which thus lifted delegates and spectators from apathy into their first big, draft-Roosevelt demonstration belonged neither to Alben Barkley, to the People, nor to God. Politically it belonged to Chicago Bosses Ed Kelly and Pat Nash: technically, to their Superintendent of Sewers Thomas D. ("for Democrat") Garry...