Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Democrat Byrnes. Senator Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina, New Deal trouble shooter, was sent north this week to push over teetering New York State, coordinate ineffectual Boss Ed Flynn, amateur Tommy Corcoran. Charged Byrnes, speaking of a Willkie blast at insufficient conscription housing: "Result of Mr. Willkie's misleading statement . . . was to strike fear into the hearts of American mothers. . . ." (On tanks) "Mr. Willkie was unfair to the President, to the Army and to the Chrysler Corporation...
...Democrat LaGuardia. Able, belligerent little "Butch" LaGuardia, who hooked a fast right to a Detroit heckler's nose this week, stumped mightily for the President: "If Wendell Willkie is a businessman, I am Mercury. . . . [Willkie is] a promoter par excellence, a ballyhoo artist . . . but unreliable and uninformed and with absolutely no business background. . . . While Wendell Willkie was plugging Commonwealth & Southern, President Roosevelt was building the soundest defense for this country...
...William Church Osborn, attorney, lifelong Democrat, onetime Roosevelt adviser...
Three Republicans and a Democrat accepted the invitation of the Smith "Roosevelt for President" Club Saturday evening, making the trip to Northampton after the game...
Arriving too late for the political rally, the four did get there in time for an Amherst beer party, which constituted the Democratic "entertainment." After a night in the Beta House -- Willkie's fraternity -- the three G. O. P. supporters had breakfast dates with Smith Willkiettes while the Democrat surveyed the Amherst campus...