Word: feighan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...20th District elected a war-minded, world-minded Democratic Congressman to replace British-hating, New Deal-hating Martin L. Sweeney. Editor Seltzer printed sober, painstaking front-page stories that vivisected Martin Sweeney's ten-year obstructionist record and just as calmly boosted young (37), modest, energetic Michael A. Feighan, who had a good record in Ohio's legislature...
...Mike Feighan (fee-an) ran on a single plank: Cleveland's votes would show whether it was for or against the Administration's war program. The Plain Dealer and the News joined Editor Seltzer's crusade, although newspapers usually consider it a competitive disadvantage to join a rival's campaign...
Last week Editor Seltzer rejoiced: Feighan got a sizable majority over noisy Sweeney, who cried: "It is a difficult assignment to try to beat a combination of newspapers, Communists and misguided persons...