Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third of the freshman Senators had been governors. Pennsylvania's Ed Martin, a rasping preacher of regular Republicanism, was one of the seven. Conservative Democrat Herbert R. O'Conor had been a vigorous two-term governor of Maryland; conservative Spessard L. Holland was a former Florida governor. The G.O.P.'s liberal wing added popular ex-governors Ray Baldwin of Connecticut and Ed Thye of Minnesota...
Nevada's George W. Malone, blustering, stocky Irishman, upset Democrat Berkeley Bunker with a two-fisted assault on OPA. "Molly" Malone, 56, an engineer and Legionnaire, has had previous experience in Washington as a lobbyist for the Industrial West Foundation...
...worked like a piston on her campaign and announced that one of her goals was to "have every union member a capitalist." She had the backing of Ham Fish, for what it was worth. Republican St. George will be one of two new women in the House.* The other: Democrat Georgia Lusk, first woman ever to be elected to Congress from New Mexico...
John Brophy, 45, who won handily over Edmund V. Bobrowicz, branded a Communist in Democrat's clothing by the Milwaukee Journal. A bald, chunky onetime Socialist and Progressive, Brophy became a Republican when the Progressives merged with the G.O.P. last spring...
High Blood Pressure. On the morning after the storm, many a Democrat struggled out of his Mae West and decided that something might be built out of such fine wreckage before 1948. Some tried to deny that there had been a Republican flood at all - just a heavy dew - cried that a small shift in the vote would have made all the difference. But Republicans, who had been saying the same things themselves for 14 long years, were confident that the salvage job would be a lot harder than it looked. They had been there...