Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Default. By every available piece of evidence, the voters had already made up their minds to answer: yes, it's time for a change. That was why Earl Warren could afford to campaign like a big, friendly Saint Bernard, tail-wagging his way east across the nation. The Republicans had only to raise no ruckus, make no thumping blunders, keep their fingers crossed against a world upheaval-and their election seemed assured...
...hell," and promptly proceeded to do so in one of the most inflammatory speeches he had delivered to date. Before the week was out, the September campaign circuits would be jammed with the trails of Alben Barkley, Henry Wallace, and the Dixiecrats' J. Strom Thurmond. The nation's cartoonists were already hard at work. Before Nov. 2, the air would be crisscrossed with brickbats, insults and loud appeals to party spirit...
...least two elections have been decided by trifling campaign bobbles. In 1884, the Republicans' James G. Elaine lost wet, Catholic New York-and thereby the nation-when an ill-advised supporter rashly labeled the Democrats the party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." It is political legend that the Republicans' Charles Evans Hughes lost California, and the nation, to Wilson by failing to shake the hand of California's potent Senator Hiram Johnson...
...specific proposals I will make," he said, "will not set faction against faction, group against group. They will aim to join us together in a more perfect union." Ticking off the nation's ills-high prices, housing, racial discrimination-Dewey echoed Warren's sweet reasonableness and added a sly twist of his own. "Some of these unhappy conditions are the result of circumstances beyond the control of any government. Any fair-minded person would agree that others are merely the result of the Administration's lack of judgment, or of faith in our people. Only part...
...required to wage peace successfully." He promised an administration "made up of men & women whose love of their country comes ahead of every other consideration." Cried Dewey: "I pledge to you that on next Jan. 20 there will begin in Washington the biggest unraveling, unsnarling, untangling operation in our nation's history...