Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The plain fact was that big, bluff William O'Dwyer had been a pretty good mayor, all things considered. Last week in an election that brought out 93% of New York City's registered voters, he was sent back to the City Hall.
For a few more minutes he chatted on, about the new responsibilities of the Demo cratic party about his dream of bringing Point Four development to the backward areas of the world. Said the President: "I am more than convinced that the Democratic Party, the party of the people, will...
The election was a crushing defeat for the Communists and their political stooge, the American Labor Party. The A.L.P. elected nobody. Congressman Vito Marcantonio, A.L.P. candidate for mayor who had boasted that he would win with more than 800,000 votes, got only 356,000, carrying only two districts in...
Last week the voters of the State of New York brought in their verdict. It was for the welfare state. In the first major election since Harry Truman's 1948 "mandate," they elected Lehman to the Senate by a majority of 196,000.
The margin of victory was roughly 4% of the vote-but it was enough. In nonpresidential years, the state had been Republican in every election since 1938. Herbert Lehman was one of the best vote getters the Democrats ever had, but Senator Irving Ives had defeated him in 1946 by...