Word: gillettee
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The Democratic sweep was such that Franklin Roosevelt had but a few lame ducks: Senators Guy Gillette of Iowa, Sam Jackson of Indiana and most notable of all, Henry Wallace. All the U.S. would watch to see what kind of job Mr. Wallace gets.
In Iowa, old-line Democratic Isolationist Guy M. Gillette was trounced by Iowa's short, balding Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, an able, popular Governor with internationalist leanings. South Dakota's Chan Gurney, a Republican who has supported the Roosevelt foreign policy 100%, won easy reelection. In Washington, the seat...
Iowa. Senator Guy Gillette, 65, was after a third term to oblige Franklin Roosevelt, who wanted to purge him in 1938. But Gillette would probably get the beating of his life from popular Republican Governor Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, 48.
That Franklin Roosevelt should choose to make overtures to Guy Gillette was significant. In 1938 the Administration sought, unsuccessfully, to purge him.* Since then he has been a pretty consistent Administration foe: he voted against Lend-Lease, draft extension and neutrality act revision; as late as last February, he was...
How much the President could help Guy Gillette was problematical. A recent Des Moines Register and Tribune poll indicated that, if the election were held now, Guy Gillette would be swamped by 220,000 by Iowa's vote-getting Gov. Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper. But the President is straining hard...