Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Midwest Young Republicans, convening at Grand Forks, N. Dak., called for Governor Harold E. Stassen, 31, of Minnesota as Keynoter of the 1940 Republican National Convention...
...having surprisingly turned into a sincere if nai've executive who could get nowhere against professional obstructors, sent his Legislature home from Austin with a near-zero record. Wisconsin's ludicrous Julius ("The Just") Heil in Madison was entangled in his own bumblings and the snares of Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record, adjourn with the least possible damage to their party. New York's Democrat Herbert Lehman recalled his Legislature to Albany to repair a budget which a Republican majority had unconstitutionally cut. But the unhappiest, unluckiest...
...secretary, Richard, sadly embarrassed him by talking too much and out of turn. And midway of his first Legislature in Sacramento, Culbert Olson had learned enough to moan that the Laborites and assorted liberals who concerted to elect him had made a disastrous mistake. They let Republican conservatives retain control in the Senate, Democratic conservatives in the lower Assembly. Before it adjourned last week after the longest (133 days) biennial session in California history, California's Legislature...
...smug old rivals. A working newspaperman himself, he made the Record a newsman's sheet, gave it a metropolitan flair that no other paper had. He picked Roosevelt long before Chicago, shrewdly identified himself with New Deal liberalism, did more than any other man to break the Republican stranglehold on Pennsylvania and to sell civic decency to Philadelphia. He has run the Record'?, circulation from 90,000 to 218,000. His men work in a converted loft building on North Broad Street, but they get the best salaries in town. The Record was the first Philadelphia paper...
...People," and it has kept its promise of independence. It has soured on Governor James, whom it helped to elect, has roasted the Legislature for killing Philadelphia's much-needed City Charter Bill, will back a Democratic mayoralty ticket next fall if Annenberg does not like the Republican nominee. Publisher Annenberg likes to think of himself as a crusader, wound up one editorial with a neat metaphorical blend: "Political skunks can wear themselves out directing their poison gas at me. I shall continue to do my duty...