Word: democratism
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...moonfaced, bespectacled Dean Alfange, 44, lawyer, author and onetime unsuccessful Tammany candidate for Congress. Although his was the only name presented to the convention, politically unknown Dean Alfange said what pleased him most was that the convention was "free and un-bossed." He identified himself as a New Deal Democrat...
...when Democrat Herbert H. Lehman got a narrow 64,000 plurality for Governor over Republican Thomas E. Dewey, 419,000 of Lehman's 2,391,000 votes were cast by the A.L.P. Since that time the A.L.P. has claimed to hold the balance of power in New York politics. November's election will put its claim to a real test...
...York City, other pre-Pearl Harbor non-interventionists won renominations by decisive majorities. Among them were Representative William B. Barry, Democrat from the Second District, and Communist party-line follower Representative Vito Marcantonio, who was named by his own American Labor Party and the Democrats and Republicans, besides...
...Stratton's platform is a supplement, on post-war problems of the U.S. and Britain, to the May issue of FORTUNE, which he mailed to every important Democrat in Idaho. During three terms in the State Senate, he never attended a lobbyist's party, never asked a fellow Senator for a vote, and passed three controversial issues by the main strength of his eloquence...
Died. Joseph John McAuliffe, 65, famed election forecaster, managing editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat for 26 years; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Louis. In 26 years he guessed wrong on the Presidential elections only twice, on the Missouri gubernatorial elections only once. He retired...