Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman and daughter Margaret marked their ballots in open cubicles. Cameramen were almost peeping over his shoulder as he put a pencil to his lips and made one mark. As he dropped his vote into a box, a newsman asked him if he had voted the straight Democratic ticket. Said Democrat Truman: "I always follow my own advice . . . I'm the sort that says...
OHIO. Tall, curly-haired, able Democrat Frank Lausche, 52, admired by both Democrats and Republicans for his record as Cleveland's mayor (1941-44) and governor (1945-46), evened his score against Republican Governor Thomas Herbert, who had defeated Lausche in the 1946 Republican sweep. Lausche, who had had little to do with organization Democrats, ran far ahead of Harry Truman...
INDIANA. As expected, popular, tobacco-chewing Democrat Henry F. Schricker, 65, who made a good record as governor from 1941 to 1945 but was barred by Indiana's constitution from a second consecutive term, defeated frosty Hobart Creighton, one of the country's biggest poultrymen but a shy campaigner...
...most part, the Democrat won by large majorities, and produced some astounding surprises. Paul Douglas, a through-going internationalist, beat the Illinois veteran, Senator Curley Brooks, an equally thorough-going isolationist. Deleware's Senator Buck was upset, and in Idaho, conservative Senator Dworshak was edged...
Matthew Necley, championed by John L. Lewis and unions in general, bad an easy evening piling up votes over West Virginia's arch-conservative Senator, Chapman Revercomb, who had been left to lurch for himself by Republican chieftains. Senator Robertson of Wyoming lost out to Democrat Lester Hunt, whose sprightly campaign--contrasted with the pedestrian tactics of his opponent--was typical of many of the Democratic victories...