Word: democratism
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...succeed volcanic Leon Henderson as Price Boss (see above), Franklin Roosevelt last week chose a man who seldom erupts: able, steady, slow-burning Senator Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat and-through no fault of his own-a lame duck. Senator Brown did not want the job: after his defeat by Michigan's popular Judge Homer Ferguson last month (TIME, Nov. 16), he was ready to go back home to resume his law practice. But when the White House put the job up to him as a patriotic duty, conscientious Prentiss Brown had no choice...
...resign, would be eased into an ambassadorship (perhaps to Ecuador) and that Franklin Roosevelt had decided on quiet, balding Postmaster General Frank Comerford Walker to head the national committee. Franklin Roosevelt's decision would have to be formulated into a command, for neither Frank Walker nor any other Democrat wanted the job. (A Washington story had it that two men, both previously mentioned for the position, had agreed between themselves that each would attempt to persuade Franklin Roosevelt from asking the other to assume the chairmanship...
From old-time Democrats, from tried & true party workers, came a clamor about jobs already given out in OPA and WPB. With but few exceptions, top places in these agencies were assigned on a non-political basis. State Democratic leaders choked with wrath when they found regional OPA and WPB offices headed by and staffed with Republicans. This political unorthodoxy extended even to the Solid South: the OPA regional rationing officer (eight States) is Georgia's G.O.P. national committeeman ; Georgia's OPAdministrator campaigned for Willkie in 1940. Said a prominent Missouri Democrat: "Those bureaus [are] all full...
Over London's Radio Orange, solid Dutch Democrat Wilhelmina told her people and the world...
...Deal's political woes (TIME, Nov. 30), Jim Farley's sudden preoccupation with railroad timetables added a ton of new weight. No other Democrat understood so well the hard, patient job of building political fences, brick by brick, name by name, promise by promise. In 1932 and again in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt had learned what it meant to have a faithful Big Jim as advance agent. Now a determined Big Jim was advance agent for the other side...