Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home-district celebration by Fall River's citizens to show homespun Speaker of the House Joe Martin "the pride and affection they feel in him by virtue of the high office he has attained." The plan had been conceived by William S. Canning, a movie-chain manager, a Democrat, and Fall River's most zealous booster. Canning was well aware that Joe had carried strongly Democratic Fall River only once in the last 22 years...
Pollster George Gallup investigated the Eisenhower-for-President boom this week. Asked whether Ike is a Republican or a Democrat, 22% of those polled said they thought he was a Republican, 20% a Democrat, 58% said they did not know. (But if Ike wants to run in 1948 it will obviously have to be as a Republican; Harry Truman has the Democratic nomination sewed up.) Asked if they would like to see Ike a presidential candidate, the replies were: yes, 35%; no, 48%; did not know...
...Lincoln, Neb., a state commission was all set to unveil a statue of Democrat William Jennings Bryan when Republicans were seized with a sense of esthetics. The statue of the Great Commoner looked "like an abandoned suitcase," critics declared, and was grossly out of proportion to "the powerful, magnificent splendor" of the Capitol's gold-glazed dome. G.O.P. Governor Val Peterson took a middle course. He ruled that the statue could be unveiled Labor Day as scheduled, but might later be moved to a less controversial spot...
Secretary of the Navy, New Hampshire's John L. Sullivan, well-traveled Under Secretary of the Navy, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, a faithful Democrat and good friend of National Chairman Bob Hannegan...
Eleanor Roosevelt, 62, had an isolated mountain snuggery to look forward to, if she wanted to accept it. The will of a 71-year-old bachelor Tennessee preacher-a stranger, and a lonely Democrat in moun-tainy, Republican Greene County-left her his two-story farmhouse and most of his 247 acres, provided she raise a modest monument over his grave. But she would have to wait to move in. The preacher's niece, thirtyish, is to have the right to live there during her lifetime...