Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end Mr. Willkie learned that Iowa's Senator Guy Mark Gillette, chairman of the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee, had found nothing "at this time" to justify an investigation of the "Nominate Willkie", telegrams which had flooded the Philadelphia convention. Senator Gillette, a Democrat but no New Dealer, declared he would not be party to a smear campaign. His committee agreed with...
While Colonel Adler was on the stand, one of the many hard issues conscription would raise suddenly popped out from California's Townsendite Democrat Sheridan Downey. How about $5 a month, asked Sheridan Downey, when the Army could not get the kind of men it wanted for $21? "We are going to face tremendous difficulties with fifth columnists," boomed Senator Downey, "and I know no better way than to conscript mechanics and pay no wages to service airplanes...
...more popular Negro champion on the throne, Senator Barbour thought it time to introduce his bill, got his friend Jack Dempsey to tell a Congressional committee that the movie ban was an archaic handicap to the manly sport. Republican Barbour is now training for a fast go with Democrat James Cromwell (an amateur boxer who once went a few exhibition rounds with Tommy Loughran) for his Senate seat...
...President of the United States on Nov. 5. A graduate of Harvard, son of Novelist Sinclair Lewis, author of one novel (They Still Say No), he is a young man who grew up under the New Deal. A practicing newspaperman, he works for the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat-Times as a news editor at $20 a week...
...Other typical Willkie enthusiasts: Wall Street Lawyer Arthur A. Ballantine, Armstrong Cork Co.'s President Henning Webb Prentis Jr., Chrysler Corp. Director Harold Elstner Talbott Jr., Southern Railway President Ernest E. Norris. In the industrial South, businessmen's private talk indicated that many an anti-New Deal Democrat would break ranks for Willkie. Lesser-known backers who typify the kind of businessman Willkie represents: Brother Herman Frederick Willkie, Louisville vice president of Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, a production man; Brother Robert Willkie, his assistant; Brother Edward E. Willkie of Chicago, vice president in charge of the salmon division...