Word: democratize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Senators and Representatives stayed in Washington. One who hurried home was Iowa's New Dealing Senator Clyde La Verne Herring. Regarded as Iowa's best vote-getting Democrat, Clyde Herring stands in imminent prospect of defeat at the hands of long-faced Republican Governor George A. Wilson. Venerable George Norris planned to go back to Nebraska, if there was a lull in Senate work, to make a personal appeal for reelection. George Norris' job now is to head off front-running Republican Kenneth S. Wherry, automobile and furniture dealer and embalmer. Known in every part...
Global Army. George Marshall, democrat, would be the first to agree that the U.S. Army is not his army. He would be first to say that the U.S. Army, 1942, belongs to the "more than five million" men and officers now in khaki, to the two or three million more who will certainly be in uniform before World War II is much older; to the "more than 700,000" who are the vanguard of huge A.E.F.s...
Republican Perils. The Senate is safely Democratic: of the 32 seats up this year, twelve are held by Southern Democrats, who are in effect elected right now. And even if the Republicans swept the remaining 20 seats-which is not even faintly possible, the Democrats would still control the Senate 54-41. Even the Republican seat of Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. may be pinched off by young, Irish Catholic Democrat Joseph Patrick Casey, a 1,000% New Dealer. Further, in Michigan many Republicans are expected to cross party lines to re-elect the Democrats' able hero...
...practically a cinch to win in California over bumbling, fumbling Governor Culbert L. Olson is the G.O.P. candidate, State Attorney General Earl Warren. A colder cinch is Major General Edward Martin, in Pennsylvania, an old-line Republican, veteran of two wars, who thus far is outdistancing the generally unknown Democrat F. Clair Ross, the State Auditor General. The Michigan race is much closer, but a Republican has the edge-big, popular Harry Kelly, now Secretary of State, who polled in 1940 more votes than anyone has ever polled on any Michigan ballot...
...predetermined by the political stars that Democrat Franklin Roosevelt would some day have to come out for Democrat John J. Bennett for Governor of New York-though the President had fought Bennett bitterly in the primary convention. The only question was how? That called for the delicacy of a three-cushioned billiard shot...