Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loudest & Longest. Harry Truman was in high good spirits at the way things had gone. Said he: "The Democratic Party is a national party, and not a sectional party any more. The tail no longer wags the dog." He boasted that the Democrats had won the election "without New York...
Later Boyle reminisced: "We lived in a big, old-fashioned house, and I remember the Trumans used to come over and visit us on Sundays. What I remember best were the political picnics the party used to hold every summer at Lone jack, Mo., outside Kansas City. These were hell...
The expense was appalling. In six months pensioners had increased from 198,000 to 245,000. The cost of paying them had jumped to more than $17 million a month and had all but broken the bank at Sacramento. Last week California newspapers and businessmen were engaged in an all...
Five Percent? There were signs last week that Britain's Labor leaders were shedding their no longer very rosy illusions. With a general election ahead, it would not be easy for Prime Minister Clement Attlee to call for a temporary retreat in the drive to establish the welfare state...
FOR AMERICANS: "Nothing could well be more disastrous than that America should take sides ... in the British general election." FOR BRITONS: "The British public should try to be less touchy about what is said in America. The real test is what is done, and by that test the United States...