Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Roosevelt's Henry Agard Wallace: "No farm-minded Republican can go up against the buzz saw of the national leadership of the Republican Party . . . without . . . deciding to become a Democrat...
...North Dakota's 54-year-old Republican William Langer has survived diabetes, two terms as Governor, three trials for political conspiracy and perjury (he was finally acquitted). Out against him for the Senate are a negligible Democrat and one formidable opponent: Congressman William ("the farmer's friend") Lemke. who ran for President on a Coughlin-Townsend ticket...
...Raymond Eugene Willis, 65, was one of nine children of an Indiana country editor, since 1907 has edited the Steuben Republican. Chubby-handed. chubby-chinned Editor Willis' hobby is helping crippled children (his wife is an invalid). His formidable 1940 task: to unhorse Democrat Sherman ("Shay") Minton...
...Democrat Ickes. "Honest Harold" let Midwest voters have it: "Does anybody . . . believe that Mr. [Ernest] Weir would be raising these millions of dollars to elect Mr. Willkie if he believed that Mr. Willkie was in fact a wholehearted supporter of collective bargaining? . . . (Recalling that on April 11, 1939 Willkie said: "If we are patient, we will see the time when men like Girdler are recognized as the true heroes of America.") "That is what Wendell Willkie thinks of Tom Girdler-a true American hero...
...actual dictatorship of the policy of their papers by the financial interests. . . . Their editorials ... are not 'on the level.' They should clean their own house before they talk about other forms of dictatorship." Asked a sly reporter: "Should [the press] be controlled by the Government?" Said Democrat Flynn hastily: "No. Absolutely...