Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before the Big Day, the famed Lamar, Mo. Democrat (circ. 1,300) published an urgent appeal: "We want as many tin and granite cups as we can get for use of the public on Truman Day. The cups will be returned to their owners...
...front page, the Democrat carried an advertisement...
Yesterday's Sandwiches. Next day, the Democrat's beefy, shaggy-haired Editor Arthur Aull, famed for his blunt and exact descriptions of local events,* gave his own precise report of the Big Day. He thought everything "moved like a marriage bell," but he kept his eye on the real news in Lamar's Truman...
...Once the Democrat reported: "John Jones was divorced from his wife, Ella, at the Courthouse Tuesday. Mrs. Jones ran off with her brother-in-law while her husband and children were at the Baptist Church." To critics, Editor Aull replied: "I could have smoothed that thing over. But if I did, my readers would begin to lose confidence. They'd say, 'Aull has quit printing the news...
George Norris ignored all the rules. He courted political suicide. Elected on the Republican ticket, he conscientiously nagged at Republican Presidents Taft, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover. His constituents were rural, dry Republicans, but in 1928 he campaigned for New York's wet, Catholic, Democrat Al Smith. The only campaign promise he made was: "I have voted against every measure and every motion I believed wrong. ... If reelected, I promise you that I will carry on with that same policy...