Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facing the fight of his life for re-election in 1950, Taft felt encouraged. Despite the brassy threats of organized labor, no one with a chance of outselling him had yet appeared. The Democrats' popular Governor Frank Lausche had already all but taken himself out of the race. Cleveland's Mayor Tom Burke, the only other Democrat with a solid chance of beating Taft, was showing a marked reluctance to get into the fight. Taft felt so encouraged that he remarked to a friend: "I feel too good too early...
With that offhand blow at the statist tendencies of the Fair Deal, Dulles announced last week that he would run for election to the Senate seat that he now holds by appointment. It was a reluctant decision. When Dulles sat down in retiring Democrat Robert Wagner's vacant seat ten weeks ago, it was with the understanding that he would stay on only until a special election in November. He wanted to get back to his Wall Street law practice and to the field of international relations, possibly as U.S. delegate to the U.N. Besides, although he had twice...
...President, already singed by the reaction to his selection of Politico Tom Clark, was reported not too anxious to lay himself open to the charge of another political appointment so soon. If his anxiety outweighed his friendship for loyal Democrat McGrath, ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the most likely possibilities for Rutledge's seat seemed to be Wyoming's Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Justice Harold M. Stephens of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Connecticut Senator Brien McMahon, or former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson...
...parliament's upper house, the Bundesrat, met first. In a simple 28-minute session the deputies, who are chosen by the state legislatures, elected as chamber president Christian Democrat Karl Arnold, Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia. When the lower house, the Bundestag, with 402 deputies elected by the people, convened in the afternoon, the drama of free-speech government began. Little Paul Löbe, who had been president of the Reichstag until Göring took over in 1932, was temporary president because, nearing 74, he was the oldest delegate in the house...
...Democrat was already in the field...