Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys in the back room were thinking ahead. The Fifth District, taking in Kansas City's "silk stocking" South Side, has never been a Democratic stronghold. The Boss's slap at Slaughter was irrevocable; with the Democrats split into factions, the Republican candidate might easily win in November...
Last Bulwark. Conservative Argentine society was shaken right down to its stirrups when Peron moved in on the Socie-dad Rural, organization and stronghold of the landed aristocracy. Peron remembered the boos he got (in absentia) last year at the Sociedad's famed cattle show. At this year's, he was determined to get the cheers. A first, necessary step was a new and pro-Peron executive committee. Last week, the old executive committee obligingly resigned...
...Enghien. Most political experts believed that the results could not safely be predicted until midnight. Came a discreet tap on the door and a youth entered bearing a slip of paper. It was the result of the vote in the Ivry-sur-Seine district, Communist stronghold on the outskirts of the city, Thorez' own electoral fief. At Ivry the constitution had been carried by 14,705-to-6,783. The majority was 2,000 less than Thorez had hoped for. He turned to the three others-Jacques Duclos, André Marty, Léon Mauvais-and said...
Politically, they were often farther apart than Chicago and New York. While Bertie McCormick loosed isolationist and reactionary thunderbolts from his Midwestern stronghold, Joe Patterson won a reputation as a liberal (liberals were also isolationists then...
...Congressman he represents Manhattan's lone Republican stronghold, the 17th ("Silk Stocking") District. But his earnest Republicanism is as individual as his taste in cravats. Says he: "I could not . . . enjoy a damned good dinner and wine unless I were doing all in my power to get better housing for the people in the slums...