Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty next led him into California affairs. Chief witness from that State was Harper Knowles, who is chairman of the State American Legion's Radical Research Committee. Mr. Knowles is on leave from his job as secretary to the Associated Farmers, an antiunion organization headed by Philip Bancroft, Republican candidate for Senator. Mr. Knowles declared that John G. Clark, Democratic State Campaign Committee chairman, and Ellis Patterson, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, are Communist Party members; that Culbert Olson, Democratic candidate for Governor, and Sheridan Downey, for Senator, loyally subscribe to the Communist "Party Line." Whereupon Senator La Follette...
...After a party has won two Presidential elections in succession it is normal at the next election for the Outs to increase their strength in Congress. In the landslide of 1936 Democrats were elected to some 50 seats in the House from districts which might be classed as normally Republican. Therefore, if Republicans win back less than about 50 seats, the coming election will be a Democratic victory. If they win 50, more or less, the outcome will show no significant trend in national politics. If they win substantially more than 50 seats the outcome will be a distinct...
...limits of probability were set last week by the claims of the two parties: the Democrats admitted the probable loss of 25 Representatives (as well as two Senators and five or six Governors); the Republicans seriously claimed up to 90 seats in the House. Non-political surveys estimated Republican gains in the house at from 30 (Liberty) to 53 (Institute of Public Opinion...
...England. Maine has already voted Republican, with confusing pressure from the Townsend old-age pension element. Vermont, still Republican, can contribute only one piece of news to the election: if it should go Democratic it would signify that a fourth successive New Deal landslide had hit the nation. New Hampshire, a more sensitive indicator, needs to swing only slightly to revert to Republicanism...
...Donald Wakefield Smith. Incumbents were informed that A.F. of L. opposes the reappointment of Mr. Smith to the Labor Board. Candidates were pointedly asked to state their positions on the matter before election day. First to respond was New York's John Lord O'Brian, Republican candidate for the Senate, who promised to vote against Donald Wakefield Smith. Said Candidate O'Brian: "Members of every board exercising discretionary or judicial powers should be wholly unbiased, impartial, and independent of outside influence...