Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orator. His father, a big, kindly, stoop-shouldered man, was a druggist who became a Democrat in Republican South Dakota when he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. By the time young Hubert was seven, his father was already reading Tom Paine and the life of Jefferson to him. Before he was out of grammar school, Hubert Jr. went along to Democratic rallies and conventions, saw his father become first alderman, then mayor of Doland...
...midmorning, despite a drizzling rain, one of the biggest crowds in Tallahassee's history was standing in front of Florida's steepled old state capitol. Democrat Fuller Warren, onetime farm boy from Calhoun County's peanut and sweet-potato country, was about to be inaugurated governor-belly laugh, handshake, campaign promises and all. The folks expected a good show. They...
...Self-Evident Suppositions." The new mayor was plump, balding Friedrich ("Fritz") Ebert, renegade son of a famed father. The elder Ebert was the first president of the Weimar Republic, a vigilant democrat who was credited with squelching the Communist uprising of 1918. Fritz, the son, opposed Hitlerism at first and spent years in a concentration camp, but finally weakened and worked under the Nazis as a publishing house director. He is now generally known as a drunkard, a weakling and a turncoat. Many Germans expect the Russians to give him the heaveho as soon as they have exploited his name...
...between talks with officials about new housing and labor legislation, he sandwiched in a few minutes with Movie Producer George Jessel, who came to present a copy of a song he had written (with two tunesmiths) for Harry Truman.* It will be dedicated to the President at a Democratic rally in Los Angeles next week. Reported Jessel: "In Hollywood, everyone has decided he's a Democrat again...
...ferried his press from Tennessee by canoe. "Mister J.N." Heiskell, who also came from Tennessee, has run it for the last 46 years. He has fought against governors and utilities, and for equal (but separate) opportunities for Negroes. He hates monopoly journalism; the Gazette once bought the rival Democrat, but Heiskell soon got them divorced. He likes to tell fellow Southern publishers that if they don't spend money to get good editorial pages, they shouldn't blame their readers for not reading them. His own editorials (which he reads aloud to make sure they can stand...