Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Missouri stamping grounds-he had proved that he could still figure out where the power lay. His personally picked candidate for Congress in Missouri's Fifth District, a political novice named Enos Axtell, scored a decisive victory in the Democratic primary over Princeton-bred Representative Roger Slaughter, who had hacked away mercilessly at the Truman program in Congress...
Harry Truman's triumph was less significant than a defeat would have been. Had Axtell lost, the President would have suffered a drop in prestige everywhere. He had said of Slaughter: "If he's right, I'm wrong." The result in Missouri's primary did not necessarily mean that all the voters thought the President was right. It did show that among some Democrats at least the President could marshal support for his program of middle-of-the-roadism cum New Deal trimmings...
...vote had another aspect. Despite the anti-Truman howls of labor and left-wingers, when the chips were down, the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee went down the line for Truman's man. So did some Negro Republicans,* who wanted to take a crack at Roger Slaughter's votes against the FEPC...
...31st Street, Pendergast lieutenants energetically rounded up 12,000 voters, who started Enos Axtell off with a whopping 10,000-vote lead. In one blue ribbon precinct 430 out of 529 registered voters obediently trooped to the polls, 395 of them for Candidate Axtell. It was a handicap Roger Slaughter could not beat, even after winning the nine other wards in the District. The final, unofficial returns: Axtell, 20,424; Slaughter...
...complained of "nervousness." In fact he discovered that some neuroses are perhaps desirable. "Resentment can be a militarily useful frame of mind despite its personal painfulness. Frustrate and goad a man sufficiently and he will become indifferent to his own fate and ignore his . . . abhorrence of rage and slaughter...