Word: won
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...face difficult days in this country, but I think you will find me in the future just exactly the same Franklin Roosevelt that you have known for a great many years." The big-shouldered man who faced his neighbors leaning on the arm of Son Franklin Jr. had won a third term. The vote had been sensationally large. If the election of 1940 had been a test of democracy, voters had met the test the only way they could: by voting 50,000,000 strong...
They did neither. The closest race in many a year put a few, healthy new faces (mostly Republican) in the Senate. But at mid-count, the most hopeful G. 0. P. prophets knew that, even if they won half the still doubtful contests, the party balance would be about what it had been since 1936. House result: the Democrats had increased their already commanding majority, had lost none of their party captains. But they had also kept a big bloc of conservatives who on occasion could & would join Republicans against the President...
Democratic Cleveland's Republican Mayor Harold Hitz Burton had won 17 consecutive elections when he defied Ohio Boss Ed Schorr last spring and got the Republican nomination for Senator. This week dark, grey-eyed Hal Burton came through once more, handily defeated onetime (1937-39) Democratic Congressman John McSweeney...
Loyal, mediocre Democratic Senator James Michael Mead had a plurality nearly double Franklin Roosevelt's in New York. He also had a winning lead (7-6) over Republican Bruce Barton. Barton's former seat in the House was won by Republican Kenneth Simpson...
Even if Baritone Tommy Dix won a job, the Metropolitan would be hard put to find him work. He is only 15 years...