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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classes, settled in New Albany, Ind. to practice law and enter politics. He was licked twice trying to get into the House of Representatives, but he rode into the Senate in the somber days of 1934 with a straight New Deal platform and a vote-getting battle cry: "You can't offer a hungry man the Constitution...
...from the squalid slums of the Tenth Ward (known as the Old Reliable because it never fails to produce a Republican majority). He went to work at 14, climbed up through the machine's hierarchy by ambition, hustle, a fast smile and a gift for "getting out the vote." Along the way he quietly decided that the machine needed a great deal of remodeling. The scandals gave him his chance...
...killed in a jet fighter plane five months ago, Candidate Coffey was barely able to hold her own among the miners and factory workers of heavily industrial Cambria County. Hustling Republican Saylor picked up enough support elsewhere in the traditionally Republican 26th to pile up an 8,500 vote majority...
Herr Heuss's first official act as President of Germany was to nominate Konrad Adenauer, leader of the largest (Christian Democratic) party, as Chancellor. When ratification came up for vote in the Bundestag, Adenauer squeaked through by one vote-he needed 202 of the 402 votes, and he got 202. It was a shaky start for the new coalition regime consisting of Adenauer's Christian Democrats, Heuss's Free Democratic Party and the small German Party...
Adenauer would have to combat the big Social Democratic Party, led by rambunctious Kurt Schumacher and shrewd Carlo Schmid. He knew well what was ahead. After the hairline confirmation vote, a photographer asked him to smile. "Aber gern [Be glad to]," Adenauer replied, "for soon I may not have any more reason for smiling...