Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the middle of the speaker's dais, Harry Truman looked out happily over the main ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, bright with autumn flowers and massed flags. The cream of Democratic womanhood was there-India Edwards, 54, boss of the party's women workers and...
¶ Turned up at a luncheon given by the National Conference of Christians and Jews and promised to keep plugging for his civil rights program. Said the President "I don't see how we can do otherwise than pass this legislation."
It wasn't even close. Despite the opposition of most of the city's newspapers and two rival candidates, O'Dwyer piled up 1,264,600 votes-308,000 more than his nearest opponent, Republican Reformer Newbold Morris. Only two Republicans were elected to city offices. Triumphant...
In San 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...
For weeks before the election, Democratic campaign workers busily slapped up posters on the billboards of New Jersey's Hudson County. The posters read: "It Looks Like Wene." Just as energetically, Republican campaign workers slapped up other posters beside them. The Republican posters read: "But It's Really...