Word: republican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conqueror was 47-year-old Earl Brown, a brand-new man in politics who worked his way through Harvard, taught college economics, is currently a staff reporter for LIFE. Democrat Brown, who was also backed by the Republican and Liberal Parties, breezed in by a three-to-one majority, 63,000 to 21,000. Said Brown: "It shows that the Negroes want no part of Communism...
...issue was as clear cut as any Republican could wish. It was the Fair Deal and its welfare state. The Republicans' John Foster Dulles did not say "yes, but-" or hint he could do it better; he declared bluntly that the Fair Deal was "statism," and he was against it. The Democrats' Herbert Lehman accepted the challenge headon: "If I go to Washington, I will work for a welfare state...
...margin of victory was roughly 4% of the vote-but it was enough. In nonpresidential years, the state had been Republican in every election since 1938. Herbert Lehman was one of the best vote getters the Democrats ever had, but Senator Irving Ives had defeated him in 1946 by a solid 251,000 votes...
...city voters beat Dulles. In New York City, conservative Deweyman Dulles dropped 210,000 votes that liberal Deweyman Ives had had in 1946. Upstate, Dulles, in his first try for public office, held the usual Republican rural counties, but hustling labor workers got out an extra 195,000 Lehman votes in upstate cities...
...Francisco, husky, able John Francis Shelley, 44, seasoned state political leader and president of the California State Federation of Labor (A.F.L.), handily captured the ever-Republican Fifth District. But Shelley was the first to admit that the labor-heavy Fifth was just replacing one good union man with an other. His predecessor, the late Richard J. Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some...