Word: outdealing
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...A.D.A. rooted against Harry Truman; some prominent A.D.A. members, including Chester Bowles and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., called for a Democratic ticket headed by General Dwight Eisenhower, then a political enigma. But after getting re-elected in 1948, Truman deprived A.D.A of the pleasures of opposition by trying to outdeal the New Deal. In 1952 and 1956, A.D.A. lost with Adlai Stevenson, but Ike failed to provide A.D.A. with any flaming causes. A.D.A. had to confine itself to jabbing needles, like calling Ike a "sunburned Coolidge...
...Governor Charles W. Bryan, brother of William Jennings, defied Boss Mullen, and named his own man, William Henry Thompson, to the job. Since then Governor Bryan and the New Deal have grown progressively apart. Last April, "Brother Charley" announced his candidacy for the Senate against Representative Burke, tried to outdeal the New Deal in his radical campaign. Against him was thrown all the weight of the Roosevelt Administration...
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