Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central figure in a de luxe musicale given by her father at the Sulgrave Club in honor of his own 54th birthday. The Vandenberg guest list of 300 included, as well as two Supreme Court Justices, half-a-dozen Ambassadors and a quorum of top-ranking Republicans, a good handful of anti-Roosevelt Democrats like Montana's Wheeler, Missouri's Clark and Rhode Island's Gerry. Washington political wiseacres promptly concluded that Mr. Vandenberg was launching his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1940 according to the festive precedent established by High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt...
...Vandenberg musicale was by no means the only event that served to turn the political spotlight on Republicans last week. In New York, just back from his first visit to Europe in 19 years, Herbert Hoover, still his party's dean, sounded off. Main points: 100 dignitaries with whom he had conversed had given him the impression that immediate general war is unlikely but the U. S. should nonetheless keep out of entangling alliances, and totalitarianism will get you if you don't watch out.* In Bangor, Me., New Hampshire's Senator Bridges called on the country...
...well did Mr. Hamilton know that, far from having to face defeat this autumn, the Republican Party is almost statistically certain to add to its offices. No Presidency is at stake on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of this
November. Of the 48 U. S. States, 33 will elect Governors this fall. Of the 33, six are in the South where Republicans do not expect to elect candidates, seven are West, where Republican machines have broken down completely. Of the 20 left. Republicans are sure of only three and have no better than an even chance in most of the rest. Of the 34 Senators up for election this year, Republicans have a fair chance of electing nine, but the fight between Rooseveltian and Conservative Democrats is likely to hold the centre of the stage. Anyhow, the Democratic majority...
Massachusetts' swart little Congressman Joe Martin, who since January 1937 has been Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, was awaiting only the result of the first Congressional primary of the year in Illinois next week before going into action as the key-man in what may well turn out to be the most significant election battle in his party's history...