Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas last week there were several disappointed office seekers: No. 1, Alfred M. Landon; No. 2. Will G. West. Governor Landon's onetime private secretary, whom all political observers in State expected to win. No. 3, according report circulating last week in Kansas, was Walter A. Huxman, Democrat, who to every one's surprise beat out Will G. West for Governor. The tale told in Kansas: no prominent Democrat wanted the thankless job of running against Will West. Finally Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy Helvering, Kansans both, appealed to Huxman, a second...
...North Dakota after 48 hours of ballot-counting, citizens last week found out whom they had elected Governor. It was not Democrat John Moses, nor Republican Governor Walter Welford. It was their old radical fireband, ex-Governor William A. Langer who two years ago was ousted from office by the State Supreme Court after being convicted of permitting the use of relief funds for political purposes, who last year on his third trial of that charge got himself acquitted, who last summer lost in the Republican primaries to Governor Welford who led the more conservative element of the Non-Partisan...
...Ohio, Arthur W. Aleshire of Springfield, although paralyzed from hips down, operates a filling station from a wheelchair and, like Franklin Roosevelt, drives an automobile by means of manual controls. Running as a Democrat with Union Party support, Mr. Aleshire defeated Representative Leroy Marshall, Republican who had survived the Democratic landslides...
...Massachusetts, voters who gave Franklin Roosevelt a 174,000 plurality for President, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. a 143,000 plurality for Senator, and Democrat Charles F. Hurley a 39,000 plurality for Governor, proceeded also to elect a Republican Secretary of State, a Democratic State Auditor, a Republican Legislature, a Democratic Lieutenant Governor, and two Republican Representatives in place of Democrats. Beaver-bearded George Holden Tinkham, who has spent the last 21 of his 66 years as Republican Representative from the Democratic city of Boston, returned home day before election in time to vote. As usual in campaign years...
...Delaware, Richard C. McMullen became the first Democrat to be elected Governor of the State in 36 years...