Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things that the election settled were not so significant as the things it unsettled. For Republican resurgence did a number of striking things to the accepted U. S. political picture...
...McNutt machine behind Senator Van Nuys and in Illinois the Horner machine, allied for the emergency with the Chicago juggernaut of Mayor Kelly & Boss Nash behind Representative Scott Lucas, overrode farmer discontent. In Nebraska only Governor Cochran, who publicized his State's economy and low taxes, survived a Republican sweep. In Iowa, Governor Kraschel was pitchforked out by 40,000 votes, mostly corn farmers'. In Kansas, the sentiment of wheat farmers was even more plain. Said Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace: "The outstanding conclusion ... is that people do not like business depressions.... The new Congressmen will probably...
...report of pollers that the great voiceless middle class had found the New Deal distasteful was confirmed by results: in New England, where if anywhere in the U. S. the middle class is in a majority, Republicans swept every State. In New Jersey the conscience of the middle class as much as the anger of Labor helped to re-elect Republican Senator Barbour over a Democrat backed by hard-boiled Boss Hague of Jersey City...
Pregnant result of last week's elections is that two years hence, when another President is created, the Republican Party will be back in the running with 15 new gubernatorial machines. Losing only three Governorships, and retaining three, the G.O.P. had a net gain of eleven over last year. Five of them are in key States of the Industrial East and Midwest, three in important farm States, three in the Mountain States, one on the Pacific Coast. In 1940 these new Governors may be of prime political importance. Some of them are (see cuts...
Thus last week outspoke New York State's defeated gubernatorial candidate, Republican Thomas E. Dewey, and was joined in vehement indignation by Democratic Senator William H. King of Utah who proposed that the U. S. forthwith break off diplomatic relations with the German Government...