Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Listened to Michigan Representative Frank E. Hook declare that he would submit evidence showing that fellow Democrat Martin Dies, chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities, was connected with the Christian Front...
What made Mr. Colmer so sure that the bill would pass was that: 1) 1940 is election year, and 2) Negroes in the north and west can vote. The lone Negro in Congress, white-topped Democrat Arthur Mitchell of Chicago, won no friends for the bill. He taunted Republicans with ganging up to "buy" Negro votes, made some almost angry enough to vote against the bill. A Republican who did vote "No" was upstate New York's Wadsworth, one of two ex-Senators who have come down to the House (the other: borderline Ken tucky's solemn, long...
Tall, ruddy, leathery Howard ("Stick") Bevis, 54, a Methodist and a Democrat, was born a farmer's boy in Bevis, Ohio, studied and taught law at University of Cincinnati, first won fame as a Cincinnati political reformer. At the urging of a classmate, Alma Murray, whom he eventually married, he got a woman elected to Cincinnati's school board for the first time, later helped clean up Cincinnati politics by drafting a new city-manager charter. His next big feat was to cut Ohio's budget from $86,000,000 to $48,000,000 as Governor George...
Wells Lewis '39 is taking over the editorship next month of the Greenville, Miss., Delta Democrat-Times, replacing the present editor, Hodding Carter who is coming here as a Nieman Fellow in Journalism...
...serve in the Legislature in Nashville, before he was old enough to vote. In his first term he performed yeoman party service: Acting as lawyer for an elections committee, he helped throw out 20,000 ballots as fraudulent, thereby replaced an apparently elected Republican Governor with an apparently defeated Democrat...