Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City, Boss of Jersey's Democracy, opined that his candidate for Governor, Senator A. Harry Moore, would carry his Hudson County stronghold by 130,000 votes. Candidate Moore carried Hudson County by 129,000 votes. Since this was enough to wipe out the leads piled up by his Republican opponent, Preacher Lester H. Clee, in most other New Jersey counties and give Moore a Statewide margin of 744,311-to-699,454, Candidate Clee and his Republican friends promptly charged that their Hudson County workers had been intimidated, began, clamoring for a recount. When officials advised that this could...
...only other U. S. gubernatorial election of the week, Virginia's Democratic Lieut.-Governor James Hubert Price, a courtly 55-year-old Richmond lawyer, got more than five votes to every one polled for his courtly fellow townsman and old friend, former Republican State Senator J. Powell Royall...
...other C. I. O. unions also went down to defeat in two Ohio cities, where they backed the Democratic tickets. In Akron the United Rubber Workers saw their candidate, G. L. Patterson, nosed out by Republican Mayor Lee D. Schroy, 35,000-to-29,000. In Canton, one of the hottest salients in the "Little Steel" strike last summer, the Labor candidate, Darrell D. Smith, though backed by both C. I. O. and A. F. of L., was roundly trounced by Mayor James Seccombe...
...historic steel towns of Ambridge, Brackenridge, Clairton, Donora, Duquesne, Monessen, Rankin. Even in Aliquippa, where Tom Girdler made his name as a Jones & Loughlin executive and where until four years ago there were only eight registered Democrats, the S. W. O. C. candidate, George L. Kiefer, defeated Republican Mayor Morgan H. Sohn...
Before 1926 many publishers had tried but none had succeeded in uprooting the die-hard Republican Wyoming State Leader-Tribune. Tracy McCraken bought the depressed weekly Eagle, edged it along seven years until the popularity of the New Deal gave him his big chance in 1933. Then he made the Eagle a free circulation Democratic daily. In a few months he hit on the big McCraken idea: into his morning tabloid he inserted-for paid subscribers only-a four-page section of local editorial comment, fiction, comics. His'best stunt was to run a serial or comic...