Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward H. Moore, 71, Oklahoma, a rugged oil-millionaire ex-Democrat drafted by Republicans to beat New Deal Stalwart Josh...
...potent States of New York, California and Michigan. Although the Democrats still controlled Congress, States which will now be governed by Republicans have a population of 76 million and an easy majority in the electoral college. Down to defeat went such stalwart New Dealers as Oklahoma's Josh Lee and New Jersey's William H. Smathers, such New Deal sympathizers as Nebraska's venerable George Norris. The New Deal, on shaky ground since 1938, had now clearly fallen from its crest; if the conservative elements of the Democratic Party were eliminated, it would virtually become a minority...
...professor of oratory, adopted his middle name in deference to his own silver tongue. He clung noisily to New Deal coattails, handed out lavish patronage to the "Rover Boys" who helped elect him in 1936, found spare time to work for Prohibition (TIME, Nov. 2). Last week Josh Lee was so shocked that he holed up at his hotel for two days before facing newsmen...
Among those to founder in the Republican flood are such staunch Administration supporters as Senators Josh Lee, Parentis Brown, and George Norris; among those riding the tide to victory are such consummate Roosevelt-haters as Tom Dewey, Ham Fish, and "Curly" Brooks. Read as a chapter in American politics the 1942 elections stand as a clear-cut blat in the face of Democratic President Roosevelt--his severest and most significant check since his first election ten years...
...Oklahoma, independent, redhaired, 300-lb. Democratic Governor Leon Chase Phillips, whose term expires at year's end, asked Oklahomans to vote for Republican Senatorial Candidate E. H. Moore instead of 100% New Dealing Senator Josh Lee. In Montana, political advertisements for Democratic Senator James E. Murray listed his record on foreign policy, contrasting it with the pacifist record of Republican Candidate Rankin. The ads did not show that the record was compiled by Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin (who is not running for re-election), while Murray's opponent is her brother, Wellington D. Rankin...