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Every evening 10 to 15 students gather in Little Hall and proceed by car to the districts where Democratic candidate Martha Sharp is campaigning to unseat Republican House minority leader Joe Martin, and Oliver S. Allen, Law School '35, is contesting Edith Nourse Rogers' seat...
...resident of Wellesley and mother of two children, Mrs. Sharp carried on relief work in France, Czechoslovakia, and Portugal for both the American Red Cross and the Unitarian Service Committee during 1939, 1940, and 1945. If successful, her campaign will unseat a GOP stalwart--present House Minority Leader--who will become Speaker of the House in the event of a Republican sweep...
Practical Democrats knew that personal Presidential purges did not usually pay off. In his 1938 purge campaign even Master Tactician Franklin Roosevelt had been able to unseat only one of the five obstreperous Democratic Congressmen he had set out to get. It is axiomatic that local voters do not like to have outsiders, even Presidents, coming around to tell them how to vote...
When order was restored, the Assembly seated Dupont (vote 341-to-130) with only the Communists voting against him. A similar effort to unseat wartime Premier Paul Reynaud met a similar fate...
...Committee. Colonel Evans Carlson, of raider fame, had an early boom for the Senate, and Democrats were trying to persuade General Joseph Stilwell to run for something. Will Rogers Jr., back from the war and not so sure that he wants his House seat again, thought of trying to unseat State Senator Jack Tenney, head of California's "Little Dies Committee...