Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quarter. But the rebel cries reached a hysterical pitch. It was clear that if Truman rammed Douglas through, he would risk a final, rending split in the party...
...major objective of Central American exiles, who helped Rebel Leader José Figueres to victory in Costa Rica, was to: 1. Induce Manuel Mora to return...
...with the Martin campaign for governor in 1942, Jim Duff had long been neck-deep in Pennsylvania politics. As a delegate to the state convention in 1912, he helped swing Pennsylvania away from William Howard Taft and into Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose herd. He was a constant rebel against Joe Grundy's local and state machines; he remains a Bull Mooser to this...
...that first defeat only made Grundy, Owlett & Co. more determined than ever to unseat the rebel. Scenting the fight, Deweymen rushed in to exploit the Grundy-Owlett wrath. It was an incongruous alliance. In the very week that Tom Dewey was urging reciprocal trade extension in Boston, Grundy's Doylestown Daily Intelligencer was editorially burning free-trade heretics at the stake. It was not that Joe Grundy distrusted Tom Dewey less; it was a case of distrusting Jim Duff more...
...group of Virginia's Democratic bigwigs turned up with greetings from rebel Governor William M. Tuck. All grace, Dewey replied: "Please give my best regards to Governor Tuck who is a Republican at heart." Then he renewed his courtship of the state's G.O.P. delegation. Harold Stassen blew into town a few hours later on the same errand; Dewey lit out for North Carolina without crossing his path...