Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ready for a Change. Why had they all deserted? The reason was as old as American politics. They knew that too many voters agreed with New Jersey's ex-Governor Charles Edison, a Republican-turned-Democrat who announced his return to the G.O.P. with the cry: "Our governmental house is choked with litter and rubbish. We must have a complete change of management. The two-party system was evolved to accomplish just that...
Last Wail. Let the Democrats nominate Ike as a nonpartisan, cried Pepper. Let Ike write his own platform, pick his own running mate. Let him be a "national" President, free to choose anyone, Democrat or Republican, for his administration. In short, let Ike go before the country as a Man-on-Horseback-who would, incidentally, carry the rachitic Democratic Party to safety...
...convention. Twice, he called Douglas in Oregon. Douglas asked for 48 hours to make up his mind. He well knew that if he resigned from the Supreme Court, he could never expect to return. A Republican Senate was unlikely to confirm the nomination of a defeated Democrat...
...last week Mister Crump was up to his bushy eyebrows in a slugging match. A smart Democrat threatened to break the grip Ed Crump has held on Tennessee's U.S. Senators for the last 15 years.* The man who dared the Boss's revivalist anger and self-righteous vituperation was big (6 ft. 3 in.) Yale-trained Estes Kefauver of Chattanooga, a hard-working Congressman with a prolabor, New Dealish record. "Red Pet Coon." Able, 44-year-old Estes Kefauver jumped into the senatorial primary fight last winter when Mister Crump gave the boot to servile Senator...
...days, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission had long been a man's affair. But last week it, too, succumbed. Beamed FCC Chairman Wayne Coy: "We've had rectitude, fortitude, and solemnitude, but never before pulchritude." Thereupon pulchritudinous Frieda Hennock, successful Manhattan lawyer and active Democrat, was sworn in as the 24th commissioner in FCC's 14 years...