Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indianapolis' citizens made that pretty clear in November when they elected Democrat Al Feeney to succeed Mayor Denny. Feeney campaigned vigorously against the spoils system and especially against the incompetence of the police department and the courts...
...that it might be a good idea to replace Hank with a Missourian, the President replied with a grin, "Even if Hank were a Republican [being in the Army, he has no politics], I'd rather have a pilot who knows how to fly this plane than a Democrat who doesn...
...historic step farther and do the politically unthinkable: let Donaldson pick his postmasters out of the ranks, on merit, They inquired hopefully about his life, his friends, his foibles and hobbies-and found that he is a very unpolitical person. They did learn that he is a registered Democrat, a Methodist, and a Mason; that he likes flashy ties, and sometimes closes a conversation as he would a letter with "Yours very truly." They also learned that, in his off hours, he pores over a stamp collection...
...Santa Fe, General Pat Hurley, rambunctious ex-Ambassador to China, asked his friends to dissolve New Mexico's 19 "Hurley-for-President" Clubs, decided to take another crack at the Senate instead. Edged out last time by Democrat Dennis Chavez, Republican Hurley this time would take on shrewd Carl Hatch...
Thereupon bullet-headed Daikichi Ubukata, 67-year-old Democrat, rose solemnly from his blue plush seat, slowly wobbled over to a porcelain spittoon in one corner to execute a unique political comment. Ubukata was heard boasting in a bus next morning: "I am probably the only person in history who has ever relieved himself in the main hall of the Diet...