Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Matthew H. McCloskey Jr. did not rise from boyhood poverty in West Virginia to wealth and power in Pennsylvania by wasting dollars or handshakes on nonentities. He bows low to the right people, bids low on the right jobs. His perspicacity in switching from the Republican to the Democratic trough in 1932 also has contributed materially to his emergence as Pennsylvania's Public Contractor No. 1. To Pennsylvanians born & bred in gutter politics, it therefore seems perfectly natural that blue-eyed Little Matt should draw first mud in this State's muddled Democratic primary campaign...
Samuel Davis Wilson did not rise from Republican Deputy Controller of Philadelphia to Democratic Controller to Republican Mayor to Democratic candidate for U. S. Senatorial nomination by wasting his vituperative talents on invulnerable opponents. To Philadelphians therefore it seemed perfectly natural that shrewd Mr. Wilson last week should choose for a target vulnerable Little Matt...
Governor George Howard Earle III presumably did not rise from Republican riches to eminence as Pennsylvania's foremost practicing liberal by pitching political curve balls. To Pennsylvanians therefore it seemed phenomenally unnatural that Mr. Wilson should have been able to daub Mr. Earle along with Little Matt and to make some of the mud stick on both. Yet the mayor accomplished this feat last week in the furtherance of his effort to do the Governor out of nomination to the Senate...
...Republican Party is certainly weaker than it was then," he explained, "and the Democrats are evidently seriously divided against themselves. I make no predictions, but the present situation would seem to be more favorable...
WASHINGTON--Republican forces in the House renewing their offensive against President Roosevelt's $5,000,000,000 anti-depression drive charged today that Communists throughout the country are spreading propaganda in favor of the legislation. The charges, which followed administration accusations that propaganda against the program is being organized on a "chain letter" basis, plunged the House into bitter debate during a session of less than three hours...