Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conqueror was 47-year-old Earl Brown, a brand-new man in politics who worked his way through Harvard, taught college economics, is currently a staff reporter for LIFE. Democrat Brown, who was also backed by the Republican and Liberal Parties, breezed in by a three-to-one majority, 63,000 to 21,000. Said Brown: "It shows that the Negroes want no part of Communism...
Both sides had accepted the campaign as a national battleground. President Truman had proclaimed Lehman his man. Democratic big guns, ranging from Vice President Alben Barkley to Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., raked the state with oratory. Labor worked as never before. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, still smarting under criticism of his ''me, too" campaign in 1948, stumped the state almost as widely as his candidate. He called for a "holy crusade" to elect Dulles, lent Dulles a campaign staff...
...Francisco, husky, able John Francis Shelley, 44, seasoned state political leader and president of the California State Federation of Labor (A.F.L.), handily captured the ever-Republican Fifth District. But Shelley was the first to admit that the labor-heavy Fifth was just replacing one good union man with an other. His predecessor, the late Richard J. Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some...
...proudest achievement, Driscoll thinks, is New Jersey's new constitution which a voters' referendum adopted two years ago. One of its provisions abolished an old state rule which prohibited a governor from succeeding himself. Under it, Alfred Driscoll became the first man to win two successive terms as New Jersey's governor in 105 years...
...transaction which gave Krug and his lawyer control of a Tennessee cotton mill; his name got in the papers in a lawsuit over a $750,000 loan made to him by a New York businessman. It also turned up on the expense accounts of Howard Hughes' Rabelaisian contact man Johnny Meyer for parties in Palm Springs, Hollywood and Manhattan, complete with $100 notations for feminine "entertainment." (Krug indignantly called Meyer's accounts a "swindle...