Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis Bean must have leaned back in his swivel chair and smiled last Wednesday morning when he read the results of New York's senatorial election. By giving Herbert Lehman a 200,000-vote majority, the electorate helped further to substantiate Bean's remarkable theory, which last year predicted Truman...
Administration members jumped on the Democratic sweep in the Empire State to point up their claims of bigger and better things for the Fair Deal. They pointed to victories in traditionally Republican cities like Syracuse and Port Jervis, and to the fact that four Democrats gained city council seats in...
It isn't that good. The Administration will have to produce results in the second session of the 81st Congress; and it will have to strengthen its labor bloc, without which the Fair Deal cannot remain in power. Last week, at the very beginning of the key drive to unseat...
Over 400,000 voters had registered in October--some 25,000 more than ever before in Boston's history. Furthermore, Tuesday, election day, was fine and most of those registered could get to the polls. In the morning papers, Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, the darling of Boston politics...
The change is welcome in Boston. The city is well-rid of the crowd of mourners in City Hall who waked Curley's political corpse on election night because they had lost their jobs. With a new major, the city can expect new employees who, at least for a time...