Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witty, tobacco-spitting John William Bulow, first Democrat ever elected Governor of South Dakota, went to the Senate six years ago. He will be there no longer, for Republican Chandler Gurney, operator of radio station WNAX won his seat in a startling form reversal with the slogan "Take Politics Out of Relief." Every other Democratic seat in the Senate appeared safe, including that of J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. Most notable new Democratic voice in the Senate will be that of Representative Joshua Bryan Lee of Oklahoma, elected to replace blind, anti-New Deal Democrat Thomas Gore. A famed orator...
...most bitter Senate critic and head of the Republican Senatorial Committee whose particular job was to win Senate seats throughout the U. S., went down to defeat, partly as the result of a split which resulted in two Republican tickets appearing on the ballot. His seat was won by Democrat James Hurd Hughes, snow-haired, 69-year-oldster who has dabbled most of life in politics and is a mild supporter of the New Deal. Next Republican rubbed out was Senator W. Warren Barbour, big, rich, kinky-haired onetime amateur prizefighter who- four years ago won the seat...
...third-party Nominees, Unionists Lemke & O'Brien alone may influence the outcome of the Presidential race of 1936. In Massachusetts Mr. O'Brien may take enough votes away from Democrat James...
...regular Republican dailies Democrat Roosevelt gets his biggest brickbats from the Chicago Tribune and its Carey Cassius Orr. The Tribune's famed, aging John Tinney McCutcheon finds Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's rabid anti-New Dealism distasteful, ventures no further into politics than an occasional (Continued on p. 16) jest on the disparity of straw votes (TIME, Aug. 3). Gruff, one-eyed Cartoonist Orr does not hate Franklin Roosevelt either, simply considers him "despicable like a snake." He likes to picture the President as a Red, a would-be Hitler, a gorilla-like monster of Fear, Doubt...