Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Governor Baldwin found a statesmanlike way out of the wrangle. On his weekly radio report to the people, he announced that he would appoint short, tough, salty Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, onetime commander of the Asiatic Fleet. Registered as neither Republican nor Democrat, Tommy Hart will presumably be satisfactory to both sides...
...Edward J. Kelly boarded the 8:15 C & A for Springfield. In the state capital, Governor Dwight Green's shiny black limousine called for him, took him to the Governor's ancient mansion. There, in the small family dining room, over a centerpiece of snapdragons and mimosa, Democrat Ed Kelly and Republican Dwight Green sat down to lunch. The menu was keyed to Ed Kelly's delicate stomach: consommé madrilene, cheese soufflé, green salad, fruit compote and coffee. It was not their first meeting, but it was the first time they had talked together officially...
Instigators were Democrat J. William Fulbright, former Rhodes Scholar and Arkansas University president, Republican H. Alexander Smith, onetime Buchmanite, Hoover Relief staffer, now an internationally-minded lawyer. They called their colleagues together, drafted the letter, got it approved by Senate leaders of both parties. It was signed by all freshmen Senators, ten Democrats and six Republicans...
Hodding Carter, 37-year-old co-publisher of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times, now serving as a major in the War Department, has not written his first novel simply about Negrophobes. The Winds of Fear is a study of a small Southern town in World War II - grimly united on the question of Hitler, feverishly disunited on the question of Negroes...
...jobs to do, Elliott and I. Other men's wives have continued their film careers after marriage. I mean to do just that-at least until after the war is over." Asked if she looked forward to meeting the Roosevelt family, she said: "I'm a loyal Democrat, you know." Asked why the couple chose to be married in a glassed-in observation station, cloud-high amid the swirling mists of the Grand Canyon, the bride replied: "Our marriage means so much to us both that we wanted to begin it as beautifully as possible...