Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state, but he won the election by two to one. In Congress, he plumped for an import tax on copper, fought against Boulder Dam because he thought it discriminated against Arizona water interests. He won his reputation as a determined foe of Government spending. A nominal Democrat, he often hurdled party lines to vote with the G.O.P., tangled violently with tough old Speaker Jack Garner...
...G.O.P. has the courage to nominate this able, conscientious, capable statesman as their 1948 presidential candidate, they can count on at least one vote from a Texas Democrat...
Since then a lot of Republican Congressmen have been to Europe. They realized, as one Democrat put it, that they had "left us wide open with no comeback for the Red campaign of misrepresentation which is sweeping Europe." Last week there were indications that Congress' feelings had undergone a change...
...Mississippi, cheers went up. Cried the Delta Democrat-Times: "Mississippi has proved that she is not foredoomed to follow the mongers of ill will." Echoed the New York Herald Tribune: "Now the confirmation is at hand . . . that Mississippi [has] more to offer than Bilboism, 'magnolias and white supremacy...
...decisive vote for Clements, a liberal Southern Democrat, was tempered by current Kentucky political history. Traditionally Democratic Kentucky has elected only two Republican governors since 1923; the G.O.P. had won in. 1943 against a Democratic opposition weakened by internal strife...