Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minute chat with Thomas Rhea, a Democratic leader in Kentucky. Quizzed by the cold-eyed White House pressroom gang, Democrat Rhea gave the reporters to understand that the President had said he did not want to run for reelection. Then the Kentuckian gulped and hedged: the President had just used language which gave that impression...
...Ever since I was a school girl I have been familiar with the names . . . and I am more than happy to meet face to face all of you Democratic Statesmen whom I have learned to honor. . . . Our next President will be a Democrat! Our next Senate will be Democratic and our next House will be still more Democratic. No matter what the opposition says. . . ." This somewhat girlish enthusiasm was politely applauded by the grizzled Democrats, who shudder after each G.O.P. victory like trees when a King of the Forest is cut down...
...Gillespie, 59, victor by a narrow 3,000 votes, was the first Republican elected from Colorado's First Congressional District since 1932. He campaigned with a splash: big billboards, solid newspaper support, and batteries of girls telephoning the citizenry. He hammered at one issue-New Deal bureaucracy. Democrats got a slow start, waiting for their wounded hero, 30-year-old Major Carl E. Wuertele (pronounced Wert-a-lee), to get his Army discharge (TIME, Feb. 7). They never did get rolling. War workers with good wages were apathetic; the party "ins" were soft. Groused one Democratic campaigner: "The only...
...only Colorado Democrat left in Congress is Senator Edwin C. Johnson, no lover of the New Deal. He tried vainly to come to the aid of the party and its war hero arguing lamely: "On Nov. 7, not March 7, will be the time to call President Roosevelt to task. . . . The New Deal has been the worst fraud ever perpetrated on the American people. But don't blame Wuertele who was away fighting . . . and had less to do with these things than you yourself...
...Republican confusion came at a moment of surpassing Democratic unity behind the best vote getter they have seen in years: Cleveland's Mayor Frank John Lausche (rhymes with How Shay), 48, the only major Democrat above the Mason-Dixon line to win in the nationwide Republican sweep last fall (TIME, Nov. 15, 1943). Lausche is liked both by labor and by old-line conservatives. Exuberant Democrats even believe he may carry Ohio for Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, if Republicans are off fighting among themselves...