Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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October Rain. But did any campaign ever have a decisive effect in a race which seemed over before it began? This was not the first time that question had been raised. It had been brought up in 1936, when it was obvious from the outset that no Republican could hope to unhorse Franklin Roosevelt. It had been brought up even earlier, when Calvin Coolidge walked away with the 1924 election by sitting on a single pre-campaign pronouncement: "I am for economy. After that I am for more economy...
...States' Righters crowed; Louisiana was the fourth state in which the regular Democratic organization had walked out on Harry Truman. The others: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina. There was no longer any question that the Dixiecrats were capable of cutting deeply into Candidate Truman's electoral vote in the once-solid South. The rebels already counted 45 of Dixie's 148 electoral votes in their bag. After "Hummon" Talmadge's victory last week (see Georgia), they were also expecting Georgia...
...Henry Wallace, standing near second base in New York's Yankee Stadium, was a hero returned. Only a few days before, he had braved eggs, tomatoes and Southern inhospitality (TIME, Sept. 13). He had left the South answering a newsman's question with one last provocative statement: state laws should be amended, he said, to permit intermarriage between whites and Negroes. Although his campaign in the South had been more incendiary than heroic, his followers thought they knew a symbol when they saw one. To them Henry Wallace symbolized the fight against those things which were wrong with...
...toughest question had been the share of Bizonia (the merged U.S. and British zones of Germany). The first figure arrived at by OEEC was $364 million, less $90 million in export contributions to Europe, leaving a net of $274 million. General Lucius Clay, who considers Western Germany all-important to European recovery, angrily decided that the figure was too low, that Bizonia was being treated as OEEC's ugly duckling. Lawrence Wilkinson, Clay's man in Paris, flatly refused to ratify the draft agreement...
Oldtime Party Leader Lucretiu Patra-scanu was ousted from the Ministry of Justice and jailed, along with his wife, a few months ago. There is no question of baksheesh in his case. His sin is in wanting a Communist Rumania for the Rumanian, rather than the Russian, Communists...