Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York. The Broadway betting boys put it this way: 6-to-5 either way on Republican Irving Ives or Democrat Herbert Lehman in the Senate contest; but 4-to-1 that Tom Dewey would give Jim Mead a beating in the Governor race. The odds told the story: if Tom Dewey gave Jim Mead a terrific enough thumping, Irving Ives could ride in on the Dewey coattails...
California. Democrat Will Rogers Jr. had two big campaign assets: 1) the name & fame of his father; 2) the name & fame of James Roosevelt's father. Jimmy Roosevelt was the magnet for crowds in the small northern towns as he and Will Rogers stumped them last week. Rogers needed the help. He was trying to carry the Wallace foreign policy on one shoulder and the Truman-Byrnes policy on the other. He was cool to the P.A.C.'s support, and there was evidence that the labor vote was sulkily indifferent toward him. Republican Senator William F. Knowland plugged...
Wisconsin. Dark, vigorous Republican Joseph R. McCarthy (TIME, Aug. 26) was making the most of his high talent for gladhanding and his opportunity to blame strikes, price muddles and every other postwar difficulty on the Democratic Party. Labor seemed apathetic to Democrat Howard J. McMurray, and Progressives were making little noise in his behalf. The odds heavily favored McCarthy...
Montana. On the theory that most of the 44,000 Democrats who voted for Burton K. Wheeler in the primary would now go Republican, the G.O.P. thought it had a fair chance to win with Zales N. Ecton, a rancher whose chief appeal is "free enterprise." To almost all others it looked as if Ecton had only a slim hope of beating labor-backed Democrat Leif Erickson...
Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, famed Congressional Medal winner (40 dead Germans in a single engagement), decided to go into politicking, prepared to stump for the G.O.P. A converted Democrat (converted by the head of Pennsylvania's Young Republicans, who said they were only paying his expenses), Hero Kelly ditched his Pittsburgh filling station, hopes to find a business with more leisure, and later on run for some public office...