Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Special Envoy did not force his opinions. He preferred to state the issues, then let each side express its views. And he always steered the discussion to a specific, written proposal. At the proper psychological moment, he would pour on the catalyzing chemicals of a working democrat...
...Maryland Democrat thrust at Ickes with the point that he had never mentioned the "rawest proposition" either to Franklin Roosevelt or President Truman. A sample exchange...
...Kenny had advanced steadily by dint of "a series of political suicides." For a long time after abandoning a career as a foreign correspondent (for U.P.) to become a lawyer-politician, he had even refused to take on a party label-"I was afraid to be a Democrat and ashamed to be a Republican." He had never bridled his sharp tongue. But able, personable Bob Kenny had led a charmed life in politics...
...independence paid off. "People may call me a radical," he says, "but they never got me confused with the crackpots and funny-money boys. . . ." In 1942, when California gave Earl Warren and his Republican Administration a landslide vote, a lone Democrat-Bob Kenny-was elected...
...born in Emporia, Kans., three years after the Civil War ended. His mother was a "black Republican" (abolitionist). His father was a Copperhead Democrat in a town 80% of whose population consisted of Republican ex-servicemen...