Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than proud grandfather who, the next evening, went down in triumph to board his special train at Hyde Park station. Some 300 neighbors were there to bid him farewell with cheers and placards. Shrieked one, "Roosevelt-46 States Honor Him! Dutchess County?'' Shrieked another, "As Maine Goes-So Goes Vermont...
Franklin Roosevelt, having a public taste of election triumph, pointed to that placard and cried: "That sign's all right, and it's all my fault. That's one time I didn't take Jim Farley's advice. He wanted me to go into Vermont and Maine. . . . Now I'm going back to Washington-to do what they call balance the Budget and fulfill the first promise of the campaign, and after a week or so with the Budget I'm going to get some sleep, and, because I can really sleep...
...down in the jubilant Democratic headquarters in Manhattan Franklin Roosevelt's political right arm, Jim Farley, was having the greatest triumph of his career, not over the Republicans but over his own staff. In a pool on Roosevelt's electoral vote he had bet on 523, 20 votes more than the next biggest optimist, and so doing...
...some time to come, however, the G.O.P. must resign itself to the part of a minority group--alert, critical, compactly-organized, with a well-defined philosophy. So shattering was the Roosevelt triumph, so sweeping the New Deal victory in Congress that the appellation of "minority party" is hardly more than a courtesy title at the present time. It cannot be over-emphasized that such under-representation of so large a minority is extremely unhealthy. One need not turn to Europe for illustration; the excesses of the G.O.P. after the Civil War, the worst mistakes of the present administration, frame...
...what loomed high even above Roosevelt's triumph was the utter and complete confusion of the forces of fanaticism, the inglorious rout of the rabble-rousers. In the North, in the South and far beyond the Mississippi, demagogue after demagogue fell before the crushing blast of inspired votes. James M. Curley, friend and participating member of the society of jail-birds, whose notorious record in local politics will go down in the annals of the state, recieved his just due; an over-whelming rebuff--the mandate of Massachusetts...