Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Water. That was the situation in many a hot spot. Said a Philadelphia Democrat: "If they vote on local issues, we might make it. If they vote on national issues, we're out." Said a top labor leader in Washington: "This just about kills the P.A.C.'s hope of electing a liberal House." Said one national strategist: "If some thing like this happened in a presidential election year, it would be curtains...
Legion Commander Hargrove, a registered Democrat, made no bones about the Communists in his post. "You'll find Communists in any young liberal organization these days," he said...
...that U.S. air forces had violated Yugoslav sovereignty 32 times in one week. The State Department replied with a stiff, 3,000-word note which added up to a simple: "Not so." Most Americans began to realize that Tito, long billed as the paladin of Yugoslav democracy, was no democrat, and that he bore watching. What they did not know about him would fill several police archives, and perhaps...
...outdone, Japanese declared Miss Shizue Yamaguchi, 28, the most beautiful woman in the newly elected Japanese Diet. In the first election in which Japanese women have ever run, Miss Yamaguchi, a Social Democrat, was elected to represent Tokyo's First District. When not legislating, she works in her father's bicycle factory, where she is typist and sometimes head cook...
Kansans had thought that Democrat Harry Woodring was finished with public life when Franklin Roosevelt fired him in 1941. He went home to Topeka, lived quietly, invested in a soft-drink company, got a jeep agency. He tatted expertly, joyfully did the housework during the maid shortage, attended antique auctions, where he bid fiercely in competition with society matrons. One night a week he played bridge with Alf Landon and two other Republicans. This summer's polio epidemic dealt him a cruel blow-two of his three children contracted the disease; son Marcus, 12, died, daughter Melissa, 11, recovered...