Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...essay on how the G. O. P. could get around the Hatch Act limit of $3,000,000 on national-campaign spending-had been shown the door. How could anyone so politically insensible win the biggest political game of all? Up & down the corridors professionals wailed that a renegade Democrat, rammed down their throats, was wrecking the first real chance of a G. O. P. national victory in eight bitter years...
...Renegade Democrat. If Candidate Willkie had any inkling of all this, last week, he showed small concern. The only gloom in Rushville, Ind. was a deep, cool shade beneath black walnut and apple trees, out in back of t ie 80-year-old worn brick house on Harrison Street which he had rented as a temporary residence. Wearing carpet slippers, Willkie lolled under the trees, supremely confident of victory...
Directors, all bona fide Democrats: Educator Alan Valentine, president of the University of Rochester; redheaded John Hanes, ex-Under Secretary of the Treasury in the New Deal; Lewis Douglas, ex-New Deal Director of the Budget. Press agent for the organization is big-time Publicityman Leo Casey, who handled Tom Dewey's campaign for Governor of New York. Mr. Hanes expressed their sentiments last week in two eruptive sentences: ''Eight years of him already! Put him in another four . . . and our children will have Roosevelts for Presidents too.'' Straws in the Wind. Last week poll...
...returned from the war to help General Smedley Butler drive the prostitutes from New Orleans. Said he: "I didn't even make a dent in the town." His cynicism and love of low comedy were augmented back in Wyoming, where he became the sole Democrat in the Legis lature, and was elected mayor of Laramie by nine votes. Later he taught law at Yale, did a few jobs for AAA and SEC on the side. He also wrote two books - Symbols of Government (1935), Folklore of Caitalism (1937) - which combined a rigorous political iconoclasm with a good deal...
...Democrat Frederic Rene Coudert, New York attorney: "I do not believe in the theory of the indispensable individual . . . that theory . . . leads to dictatorship...