Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rare is the Democratic professional who prefers a Republican victory in 1944 to 16 years of Roosevelt. And almost no Democrat believes that any other Democrat but Franklin Roosevelt could win the 1944 election. The prospect was that Congressional Democrats will close ranks behind the President as the elections draw nearer-but more & more on their own terms...
...tobacco-juicy Gene Talmadge briefly raised itself to the light last week. The pseudo-folksy ex-Governor of Georgia made the papers by rising before the Lions Club of little Eastman, Ga. (pop. 3,311) and plugging the election of General Douglas MacArthur to the Presidency-as a Democrat. Then the No. 1 Has-Been of Georgia politics subsided again with a faint snapping of galluses, having once more done nobody a great deal of good...
These alarums & excursions were ironic wormwood to Elder Statesman Baruch, whose political philosophy is a good deal closer to Old School Democrat George's than to Franklin Roosevelt's. Throughout his report Baruch had repeatedly cautioned the U.S. against divisive pressure-group politics. He had labored valiantly to present a set of policies that would impress Congress and the nation without depressing the President, to whom his report was of necessity addressed. But he forgot the one great issue that transcends all others in 1944 Washington, D.C. Implacably Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg blurted it out at week...
...Home Rule Bill, as edited by Democrat Dennis Chavez of New Mexico, committee chief, provides; > For an elective Governor −with power to appoint his own Cabinet. > For an Attorney General by local election instead of by Presidential appointment...
...after 13 months as an efficient State executive who is only somewhat vague about foreign affairs, the G.O.P. Governor last week made an announcement. In the June primaries he will go for the seat of resigning Democrat Guy Gillette, and ask lowans how they would like to hear for six years the thunderous name of U.S. Senator Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper...