Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiercely partisan Southern Democrat, Martha Truman had a tart opinion on almost everything. Her friends fondly called her "the old rebel," and shamelessly embroidered a tale of how she had said she would sleep on the floor rather than occupy the White House bed that Yankee Abraham Lincoln had slept...
Midnight (supposedly the deadline) passed. The battle went on. The Republicans were trying to force a renewal of the Kansas City vote fraud investigation (TIME, June 16). They believed (or hoped) that the investigation would turn up evidence that the Democratic machine in Kansas City had falsified primary election returns last August-and that machine was very close to Harry Truman; it had put him in the Senate. The behavior of the Democratic Senators in the face of this threat was not such as to allay suspicion: they had closed ranks, made it a party issue, and blocked the investigation...
...subordinate secretaryships: for Air, Yaleman W. Stuart Symington, now Assistant Secretary of War for Air, socialite, industrialist and son-in-law of New York's military-wise Congressman James W. Wadsworth; for Navy, handsome Under Secretary John L. Sullivan, New Hampshire lawyer and faithful Democrat, who got his Washington start in the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
Hard on the Fresno rally, Chairman Roosevelt heard other shots-from the right. They came from plump, redheaded Tom Scully, well-to-do Los Angeles Democrat and ex-Democratic state treasurer, whom Jimmy had defeated for the state party chairmanship last year. Scully, an old Pauley disciple, had neither forgotten nor forgiven. For a year, Scully and the Pauley organization had sniped at Jimmy Roosevelt. Last week, Scully announced that he had assumed leadership of a Truman-for-President movement in opposition to the nominal party leadership of Chairman Roosevelt...
Adhemar is part democrat and part demagogue, part do-gooder and part spellbinder. There is something about him that suggests Franklin Roosevelt-also Huey Long and Fiorello LaGuardia. He was once a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, but now disclaims any allegiance...