Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Age, a conservative Harlem newspaper which in 60 years of Republicanism has only once supported a Democrat for President (Roosevelt in 1932), declared for Roosevelt. Said the Age: "Negroes have made too much progress in their fight for first-class citizenship under President Roosevelt to trust the future to Thomas E. Dewey...
...responsible for this attempt to reform New Jersey is Boss Hague's fellow Democrat and archfoe, former Governor Charles Edison, 54, son of Inventor Thomas A. Edison and onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. From the start of his three-year term in 1941, smart, mild-mannered Governor Edison defied Hague more openly than any other governor has dared to. He dented Hague's armor badly, using the old state constitution as his bludgeon. Edison stumped the state, denouncing the inefficient basic law. Before his term was up, he got the people to vote for the submission...
Harry Truman, who rose to the U.S. Senate under the sponsorship of Kansas City's old Pendergast machine, responded with a bit of his political philosophy. "I'm a Jackson County organization Democrat and I'm proud of it," he said. "That's the way I got to be a county judge, a senator and candidate for vice president." Then he added...
...Dewey was not internationalist-minded enough. Said Senator Ball: "I would violate my own deepest conviction if I were at this time ... to campaign for Governor Dewey." And at a newsmen's luncheon in Manhattan, ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker cracked: "Like Farley, I'm still a Democrat-and just as still...
...Amendments. Ohio-born and Iowa-reared, Jim Reed came to the Senate after four turbulent years as Kansas City's reform mayor. He fought Wilson early & late. In 1913, a Democrat-loaded House rubber-stamped Wilson's Federal Reserve Bill through in 13 hours. Senate Democrats were all set to do the same. Reed balked. Wilson's anger boiled over. But by the time the bill became law, it had 562 amendments, mostly added by Reed; and Reed had a letter from a chastened Wilson admitting that the law had been strengthened...