Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrat Abe Murdock of Utah thrust like a shark at this vulnerable opening. "I know it is the prayer in his heart, and it is the prayer in the heart of every other good, old, stand-pat Republican in the United States today . . . that Franklin D. Roosevelt would eliminate himself from politics and give them at least a shadow of a chance to bring in the Grand Old Party again. But I say to them . . . the American people still want Roosevelt...
...home State of durable ex-Senator Jim Watson gave the Senate another notable orator last week-this time a Democrat: balding, 48-year-old Samuel Dillon Jackson, ex-State Attorney General of Indiana, ex-prosecuting attorney, longtime elder in Fort Wayne's Presbyterian Church, active member of the Scottish Rite. Governor Henry F. Schricker appointed him to fill the unexpired term of the late Frederick Van Nuys (see p. 82).* Said Senator Jackson: "I will support the President...
...Democrats sorely need a winner in the special election March 7. Until his death in December, Congressman Lawrence Lewis was the lone Colorado Democrat in Congress. The First District is traditionally Republican. The Republicans, with a two-week head start in campaigning, have a strong candidate in Dean M. Gillespie, 59, who grew rich from cheese, oil and trucking, is a political adept...
...annual $100-a-plate Jackson Day dinner (terrapin soup, breast of capon, burgundy), speakers and audience also took it for granted that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only Democrat who can win in 1944. Second place on the ticket was the only puzzle. Friends of Paul McNutt moved energetically among the guests. The stock of House Speaker Sam Rayburn (who spoke in the President's regular spot at Jack son Day dinners) went up perceptibly. But by the time Vice President Henry Wallace rose to affirm that the "ageless" New Deal was far from dead, big & little Democrats were...
...outside Philadelphia elected a Main Line investment banker, Samuel K. McConnell Jr., 42, to succeed a fellow Republican. The city's heterogeneous Second District (including a Negro section and fashionable Rittenhouse Square) has been edging back toward the Republican column in recent elections. Last week it replaced a Democrat with Joseph M. Pratt, 52, floodlight manufacturer and G.O.P. ward boss...