Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eastern Tennessee's McMinn County, on the western roll of the Blue Ridge Mountains, politics is played for keeps, right up to the gunstock. For almost 30 years, McMinn's shootingest politician has been a stocky, grim-faced Democrat named Thomas Burkett Ivins, 63. As a "revenooer," a deputy marshal and McMinn County's sheriff, Burkett Ivins had never been slow on the draw. He had killed seven men-all, it was decided, justifiably. Old Burkett was proud of his pistol prowess; no one in sight of his one good eye was going to outshoot...
...some hearty laughs. When a single boo rang out amid the cheers with which he was greeted before his speech in Los Angeles' Elks Temple, he ad-libbed: "Fellow Republicans and a Democrat, I hope!" When a questioner asked him when the income-tax law was going to be simplified, he said: "You know the income tax law is really very simple for most people. You just fill out a form, turn it over to check what your income is and that's the end of it. ..." A gale of laughter halted him, startled him, and then obviously...
...train's backers might well have assumed that their project would be as free of criticism as the Barnum & Bailey Circus. But no; the attacks had already begun. Michigan's Congressman Clare E. Hoffman, a hard-shelled, far-right Republican, at once denounced it as a Democratic "buildup for 1948." Illinois' 81-year-old Adolph Sabath, a Democrat, complained because no copy of the Wagner Labor Act was included in the exhibits. In Henry Wallace's New Republic, Langston Hughes, Red-winged Negro poet, heaved a shrewdly aimed rock...
Last week the Democrats and the P.A.C. came back with their tails left hanging on the barbed wire. Grundyman Lichtenwalter rolled up the biggest G.O.P. majority in the district's history. Democrat Phil Storch, 36, president of the Lehigh Valley Newspaper Guild (C.I.O.), had concentrated on industrial Lehigh County. "If I can win it," he had said, "we will have proved our point that the Republicans can be beaten in the next national election." In Lehigh County the G.O.P. upped its 1946 margin of 54.4% to 55.1%-What pained the Democrats most was the national attention which the election...
...worried reader of Denver's Rocky Mountain News wrote to Lovelorn Columnist Molly Mayfield that she and her husband quarreled because he was a Democrat and she a Republican. What should she do? Advised Columnist Mayfield: find a Henry Wallace man and invite him over. "You both could join in heaping coals on the Wallace follower. In this way you and your husband might be closely drawn together...