Word: warren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not necessarily depend on good party politics. As a candidate for governor of California in 1946 he won an unprecedented renomination on both Democratic and Republican tickets, promptly appointed men of both parties to state office. To some party regulars, such action was close to party treason. To Warren, it meant a rise in his popularity...
Above the Storm. As a party spokesman, Warren early took his stand with the progressive Republicans-the Deweys, the Stassens and the Vandenbergs, against the Old Guard-the Tabers, the Hallecks, the Martins and the Tafts. He came out strongly for U.N., for the full Marshall Plan appropriations, for universal military training. He has always been an ardent exponent of public power and reclamation projects for the West, of a permanent FEPC, of government assistance for private housing...
...Government. But he believes that government must act when private initiative cannot. One of his few disagreements with Tom Dewey is his advocacy of government health insurance, at the state level. When the special session of Congress failed to act on housing and high prices last summer, Earl Warren was one of the few Republicans who publicly criticized Congress' do-nothing approach on these issues...
...campaign train rolled through the Royal Gorge of the Rockies, south through Colorado and into New Mexico, it was clear that Earl Warren was more determined than ever to stay above the infighting. Not until he reached Tulsa this week did he give the sins of the Democrats more than a passing swipe...
...Earl Warren spoke more in sorrow than in anger. He took off for the East, still concentrating on being the candidate who is mad at nobody...