Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Nance Garner was the first top-bracket Democrat to understand that Franklin Roosevelt was not going to anoint and bless any Presidential candidate until the last dragged-out moment before the 1940 convention. Looking over the field, Mr. Garner concluded his chances of anointment were pretty dim; out went his braves to do something about it. By last week they could confidently report back to the Vice President that his complete retirement from public life on Jan. 20, 1941 was a dead cinch, but that with him he might well take Mr. Roosevelt...
...anguish of most major GOP businessmen, the Senate's Republicans rejected this principle, for the high-minded pleasure of casting 23 solid votes against something approved by Franklin Roosevelt. To the shame of many a thoughtful Western Democrat, many Democratic Western Senators rejected the principle, on the theory that the import of $4,411,853 worth of Argentine canned meats is injurious to the $1,144,000,000 U. S. cattle industry. In this emergency, the Administration feared to trust wholly to Kentucky's Alben Barkley, Senate leader. Afraid that "Peerless Leader'' Barkley might lose votes...
Senator Harrison and the conservative Democrats favor Cordell Hull as the logical compromise 1940 candidate. Defeat of his trade agreements meant political death to the one man within the New Deal they can swallow. Democrats of all hues intended Mr. Hull to win. Yet many a Western Democrat still felt he must first go on record against the agreements in order to convince farm, cattle and mining interests that he was fighting for them...
...ballot that confronted Wisconsin voters was a complex maze. For Roosevelt there were two slates: one an anti-Hoover-Democrat group headed by Gustave Keller, Appleton lawyer, chummy with La Folletteers; one a "Roosevelt-Farley" ticket, headed by Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan politician, made up of machine Democrats. For John Nance Garner was a slate bossed by John J. Slocum, Assembly clerk, expected to attract many an anti-Term III voter who would rather protest a Roosevelt re-election than choose between Messrs. Dewey and Vandenberg...
...Ministry to Radical Socialist Lucien Lamoureux, a yes-man. Georges Bonnet, Minister of Justice in the outgoing Cabinet (Minister of Foreign Affairs in the days of "Munich"), was left out of the new Cabinet altogether. The Air Ministry, previously held by Radical Socialist Guy La Chambre, went to Left Democrat Laurent Eynac who has held this job before-no ball of fire...