Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...school diploma in his pocket, he set up to practice in South St. Paul, in partnership with his friend Elmer James Ryan. As a result of overwork, he came down with tuberculosis. That slowed him up for only a short while. With the help of Ryan, a Democrat, he got himself elected a Republican county attorney in 1930. He returned the favor by helping Ryan become city attorney, U. S. Congressman in 1934, again in 1936 and '38. (This year Republican Keynoter Stassen will have to decide whether he is going to support Democrat Elmer Ryan for a fourth...
...raised a cacophonous din. Sour was the note from Maryland, where Robert Alphonso Taft withdrew in pique before the rambunctious invasion of Tom Dewey. Liberal Republicans in the East, to whom the name of Pennsylvania Boss Joseph N. Pew Jr. is pure onomatopoeia, made beckoning sounds to a strayed Democrat, Wendell Willkie...
Wendell Willkie is a self-confessed political "hybrid": he says he does not agree totally with either party. For that reason many a free-wheeling Democrat, many a Republican would like to see him President of the U. S. He was willing to accept the Republican nomination for the Presidency, but no one had figured out how to start him off.* With no party backing, he was a rootless flower in the political garden. Then, in Wall Street, an amateur political gardener announced he would do the necessary spadework...
John Nance Garner was the first top-bracket Democrat to understand that Franklin Roosevelt was not going to anoint and bless any Presidential candidate until the last dragged-out moment before the 1940 convention. Looking over the field, Mr. Garner concluded his chances of anointment were pretty dim; out went his braves to do something about it. By last week they could confidently report back to the Vice President that his complete retirement from public life on Jan. 20, 1941 was a dead cinch, but that with him he might well take Mr. Roosevelt...
...Second Democrat to realize that no Presidential blessing would come his way was James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General and Politician Plenipotentiary to the New Deal (TIME, April 11). Third came last week, when Paul Vories McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, his back a mass of stab wounds from his New Deal friends, hurriedly got leave from his duties to take his case to the country. But Big Jim Farley was already on his way. No one (but Mr. Farley) doubts that he knows, by first name, 10,000 people all over the U. S. Mr. Farley's only doubt...