Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President: In Cook County and other urban areas, Republicans have worked hard to make inroads in the huge Negro and Polish-American vote. There is no sign whatever that any large numbers of these blocs have been detached from their Democratic allegiance, but there may be some seepage...
Pennsylvania, if its G.O.P. tradition can be ignored, has ingredients which may make it as unpredictable as New York or California. Its 1950 population of 10,562,000 is 70% urban. Nearly 3,000,000 are foreign-born or of recent foreign descent. Pennsylvania has more than half a million Negroes. There are more than 1,500,000 union members in the state. Among its population are 3,000,000 Protestants, 2,500,000 Roman Catholics, half a million Jews...
...leading University authority on American political parties, admits that the big registration means a big vote, but disagrees with observers who think a big urban registration means a larger Democratic vote in November...
Carlotta, the Enigmatic Mother, was a frisky and fashionable actress living a life of frantic emptiness. And the Disagreeable Suitors were a passel of New York busybodies, creatures on the make. From this situation Novelist Sykes, an urbane critic of the U.S. urban way of life, has spun a quiet and thoughtful novel...
Wisconsin has a good balance of rural and urban voters, a record of alert citizenship and no tradition of following reactionary demagogues. From county to county it has considerable variety in occupation, national strains and religion, and yet McCarthy carried 69 of the 71 counties.*Under those circumstances, it is hard to see how McCarthy's appeal can be peculiar to Wisconsin...