Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surely, if Reader Daniel is a "do or die Democrat," he should have nominated F.D.R...
...many a Congressman had gone to Europe to see the D.P.s for themselves last summer. Member after member, Republican and Democrat alike, rose to dispute Texas Ed. Pennsylvania's James G. Fulton pointed out that the D.P. behavior record was better than that of the U.S. occupation forces. New York's Kenneth B. Keating declared: "They are the most fervid anti-Communists I have ever encountered." To exclude any possible subversives, "there has been set up a truly formidable labyrinth of five screening agencies through which these people must go." Added Kentucky's Frank L. Chelf...
...taught young Louis Arthur Johnson that there was only one profession fitting for a Virginia gentleman. Be a lawyer, he advised the boy, a lawyer and a Democrat. Shortly after his grandfather's death, 16-year-old Louis announced, in a characteristically firm fashion: "I am going to be on the Supreme Court of the United States some...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt and son of Harry Payne Whitney. A devoted Democrat, he lent the National Committee money when things were at their gloomiest. "Sonny" Whitney helped found and finance Pan American Airways, is board chairman of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. and president of Whitney Industries, Inc., a New York State lumbering company. Since the election, Whitney has been promoted from Assistant Secretary of the Air Force to Under Secretary of Commerce...
...Carroll Cone, an assistant vice president of Pan American Airways. A dedicated Democrat from Arkansas, Cone corralled money even from Dixiecrat & Republican friends, kept up good relations for Pan Am on the Democratic side of the fence. Cone gave $3,000 himself, collected $300,000 and had a hand in bringing the trainmen's A. F. Whitney backing into the Truman roundhouse...