Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good a method as any. The voters in his district started sending him to Congress in 1924 and kept it up without a break. His Republican Party was beaten to a frazzle by Franklin Roosevelt, but Joe kept going back. In 1938 he took over the leadership of the beaten G.O.P. in the House. He was thwarted and jeered at, but Joe kept hammering away...
...face was puffy with fatigue; the corner of his left eye twitched constantly. He looked even more rumpled than usual. His own campaign for re-election had not been hard. When the State Legislature had redistricted Massachusetts six years ago it had included Wellesley in Joe's district. "A breeding place for candidates," Joe had remarked at the time, thinking of professors; and sure enough, Wellesley had produced a candidate, although not a professor. The candidate was a college woman named Martha Sharp. But she had never worried Joe. "Do you want to take your troubles to a little...
Wendell Howes Meade, genial 34-year-old Republican attorney from Kentucky's mine-pocked Seventh District, where he soundly beat ailing Military Affairs Chairman Andy May, once the miners' darling, but reduced to political silence since the Garsson investigation...
...Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge, brother of new Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; ex-Navy lieutenant commander and onetime cinemactor (The Little Colonel with Shirley Temple, The Scarlet Empress with Marlene Dietrich). In his campaign, Republican Lodge and his wife, onetime dancer Francesca Braggiotti, invaded Bridgeport's Italian district making speeches in Italian, while his opponent, Ranger hero Colonel Henry Andrew Mucci, a second-generation Italian, spoke only English. Lodge will fill the seat occupied for two terms by retiring Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce...
Homer Raymond Jones, 53, victor in Washington's First District, where voters decided that any Republican was better than Communist-line Hugh De Lacey. A kindly, stolid, small-time political seat-warmer, Jones's campaign handouts made the point: "Jones was a clean baseball player for Bremerton, hit a home run in his last game for his wife, Delia...