Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were some of the reasons why Sidney Hillman is one of the most important men in Chicago this week. The gentle, chronically ailing labor leader is not a delegate to the convention; he is not even a registered Democrat. But behind the scenes his power is great...
Even the town's No. i Democrat, who is also cashier of the bank, was in the crowd. So was Tom Dewey's "citified" neighbor, Commentator Lowell Thomas. Thomas introduced the Governor to the friendly small-town audience, with folksy references to Dewey gadding off to big cities like Chicago when his hay needed putting in. Thomas said he had put his own hay in that very morning, and as a neighborly turn had even pitched a little at the Dewey farm. Dewey replied, with characteristic heavy jocularity, that if so, it was the first work Lowell Thomas...
...ISOLATIONIST." Editorially, the Tribune thought the idea was fine-but sturdily refused to believe him. Said the Tribune: "The President's characteristic maneuver before elections is to announce a policy in accord with the opposition's views." Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat & isolationist, observed, with almost diabolical satisfaction, that the President's plan did not go as far on the internationalist side as the Republican's Mackinac Charter...
...Fulgencio Batista, who had come up from rags to the riches of the Presidential Palace, astonished everybody, apparently including himself. The Army bully-boy whom most Americans still picture as a strong-arm dictator turned out to be too much of a democrat for his own side. He had set rules: compulsory, secret voting; hands off by the Army; no shooting or slugging at the polls. U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden made history by forbidding U.S. business firms or individuals to contribute to the parties. Fulgencio Batista said he wanted democracy...
...Author Ludwig Bemelmans: "We have a revolution here every Thursday afternoon at half-past two and our Government is run like a nightclub." But last week's uprising, which gave the country its 14th President in 15 years, was more than a nightclub brawl. A popular movement with democratic aspirations had overthrown an unpopular government with dictatorial inclinations. Velasco Ibarra still had to prove that he would be a practicing democrat. After he was elected President in 1934, Ecuador's politicians found him a difficult and somewhat messianic man who talked about despoiling grafters, pushing economic reform...