Word: democratism
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...G.O.P. has the courage to nominate this able, conscientious, capable statesman as their 1948 presidential candidate, they can count on at least one vote from a Texas Democrat...
Since then a lot of Republican Congressmen have been to Europe. They realized, as one Democrat put it, that they had "left us wide open with no comeback for the Red campaign of misrepresentation which is sweeping Europe." Last week there were indications that Congress' feelings had undergone a change...
...Mississippi, cheers went up. Cried the Delta Democrat-Times: "Mississippi has proved that she is not foredoomed to follow the mongers of ill will." Echoed the New York Herald Tribune: "Now the confirmation is at hand . . . that Mississippi [has] more to offer than Bilboism, 'magnolias and white supremacy...
...decisive vote for Clements, a liberal Southern Democrat, was tempered by current Kentucky political history. Traditionally Democratic Kentucky has elected only two Republican governors since 1923; the G.O.P. had won in. 1943 against a Democratic opposition weakened by internal strife...
...Democratic committee also installed a new chairman, Senator J. Howard McGrath, the New-Dealish Rhode Islander who had been Harry Truman's personal choice to run his campaign (TIME, Oct. 6). McGrath had no sooner taken over the chair from ailing Bob Hannegan than he had a chance to demonstrate his ability to duck. The committeemen had prepared a resolution condemning almost in toto the work of the 80th Congress. McGrath spiked the resolution before it came to a vote. He remembered that many a Democrat had voted for Republican-sponsored measures, among them the Taft-Hartley labor...