Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Chavez brothers-Candidate David and U.S. Senator Dennis-this meant the failure of an elaborate hope for a Chavez dynasty in New Mexico. For the Democratic Party, without its customary portion of vote-getting Spanish names, it meant that "native" voters might drift back to the Republican Party (where they had been before they became what one politician calls WPA Democrats). If enough switch over, they might hand the governorship to the Republicans in November. "It could be," admitted one worried Anglo Democrat, "that they'll give us the old adios this year...
...Mayor of Boston James M. Curley, 75, pardoned recently by President Truman (he spent five months in jail for mail fraud in 1947), was back in "God's country-Boston," after an extensive tour of Europe. Swinging a blackthorn shillelagh, Democrat Curley announced that he would be a candidate next year for a fifth term as mayor of Boston. About that fraud conviction? "Probably just a case of Mr. Roosevelt wanting to smear...
...Democrat Joseph ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson assured the President that he would beat Robert Taft by 250,000 votes in November, and asked the President to travel Ohio "up & down and crisscross and every which way" in his behalf. Harry Truman promised to help...
...their defense, Adler and Draper said they had supported Allied causes during the period of the Nazi-Soviet pact. Adler testified that he was a Democrat, a New Dealer and a loyal U.S. citizen: the fact that Government agencies had named certain organizations as Red fronts did not make them so as far as he was concerned. Draper just as vehemently maintained his loyalty. He thought, he said, that Stalin "has gone out of his mind." He said: "Never in my whole life have I ever deliberately advanced the cause of Communism ... It hurts people and it hurts nations...
Funerals & Fires. "When I was a boy . . ." Blanton begins each Globe-Democrat column. Then, taking his readers by the hand, he roams through the green gardens (and occasionally down the primrose paths) of his remarkably precise memory of Paris and northeastern Missouri in the good old days. In successive columns, Blanton revisited his one-room rural schoolhouse (the teachers are better-schooled, nowadays), his aunt's funeral (no flowers, but plenty of lugubrious singing), a riotous Democratic political rally (music by Barney's Band, composed exclusively of Republicans) and a bucket-brigade fire...