Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dewey, already considered as Republican candidate for Governor, and even talked of for President in 1940, looked up. He appeared to have the makings of the juiciest campaign year scandal New York has known since Franklin Roosevelt practically ran Tammany's dapper little Mayor Jimmy Walker out of office...
...Earle & friends won the primaries.Mr. Margiotti & friends lost. Instead of making peace with GovernorEarle, like Senator Joe Guffey, Mr. Margiotti went to his Republican cronies in Dauphin County (Harrisburg) and got District Attorney Carl B. Shelley to start a Grand Jury investigation of the Earle regime. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 6-to-1 Republican, refused to halt this move. Governor Earle then turned to the General Assembly, Democratic by 150-to-53 in the House, 34-to-16 in the Senate. A special session would cost Pennsylvania's taxpayers anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 but Governor Earle...
...California, Senator Joe O'Mahoney was in Wyoming resting up for his Monopoly Investigation. So in Washington last week the committee charged with policing 1938's Senate campaigns was stripped down to dutiful little Senator Sheppard of Texas (chairman), urbane Senator White of Maine (the sole Republican), lumbering Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts. In an air-conditioned office at the Capitol, this trio scanned reports from ten field investigators, kept the press informed of its opinions on the political campaign...
...Glenn Frank (Sat. 8130 p.m., NBC-Red), Republican Program Committee chairman, reports on his committee's Chicago conference...
...mobilized for one man, how much could be accomplished by a fully awakened common effort against hunger, slums and sickness?" The philosophic Washington Post considered Warde "a modern Faust" who "did not begrudge payment for the brief period of power granted him." The New York Herald Tribune, ever Republican, saw in Warde striking proof "that civilization is not the product of external rules and compulsions but of individual consent." To Hearst's New York Mirror, the helplessness of the people who watched Warde symbolized ''the numbed futility of the millions of peoples all over the world...