Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indiana. Hulking, heavy-jowled millionaire Republican Homer Capehart, who manufactures juke boxes and super-phonographs and is experimenting with television, was having trouble. His opponent for the Senate: mild, homespun Democratic Governor Henry Schricker, 61, who has eaten fried chicken in almost every church basement in Indiana. Democrat Schricker shrewdly avoids discussing Term IV in Indiana...
Missouri. Pious, indecisive Republican Governor Forrest Donnell (who is popularly believed to consult his law books before deciding to go to the men's room) was favored over C.I.O.-backed Democrat Roy McKittrick, who defeated veteran Isolationist Senator Bennett Clark...
Montana. The big-business "twins" that run Montana politics, Montana Power and Anaconda Copper, were behind able incumbent Republican Sam C. Ford, 61, first G.O.P. governor in 20 years. But hard-campaigning, up & coming, six-foot Democrat Leif Erickson, 38, with united labor support, had a chance...
...Jersey. Between two political unknowns, the Senate race would probably go the way the state goes (polls showed the state leaning to Dewey). The candidates: Princetonian Republican H. Alexander Smith, 64, able lawyer; Elmer Wene (rhymes with bean), 55, wealthy egg man and Hague Democrat who has yet to speak up in six years in the House...
...then rose to prominence in politics through rubber-stamp party regularity, a lot of luck and a sharp eye for the main chance. He has none of the flowing pretensions that many Senators wear like togas. After his nomination in Chicago he reiterated: "I'm a Jackson County Democrat, and proud...