Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down from Putney, Vt. traveled Vermont's four-term liberal Republican Senator George Aiken, 66, on a presession mission to Washington. The mission: to raise a new flag of G.O.P. liberal revolt against the G.O.P.'s right-wing Senate leadership...
...extreme right fringe is probably responsible for our losing a half-dozen of the Republican Senators'seats,"said Aiken. "There's been this feeling for some time that the conservatives would really put the party on the skids. And there will be more losses unless something is done. We have had the feeling that the President has been advised by ultraconservatives only. The liberal wing should have more access to the White House...
Pulling the Rug. The Senate's G.O.P. liberals have raised revolts before-and walked away from them before-but this time George Aiken seemed to mean business. Reason: in 1958 such G.O.P. right-wing Senators as Nevada's George "Molly" Malone, Ohio's John Bricker, California's Bill Knowland (running for Governor) and West Virginia's Chapman Revercomb, were roundly defeated while G.O.P. liberals just about held even and were sparked in spirit by G.O.P. liberal Nelson Rockefeller's election to the New York governorship. The incoming 34-man G.O.P. minority includes twelve...
Weighing this new breakdown and its new near parity, Aiken & Co. moved on to set specific objectives, notably: 1) G.O.P. liberals to get one of three top jobs-minority leader, whip, or a new job of assistant minority leader (leading candidate: California's Earl Warren protege, Tom Kuchel, 48); 2) G.O.P. liberals to get better committee assignments, e.g., one or two new spots on the blue-ribbon Foreign Relations Committee; 3) G.O.P. liberals to get more say in policy papers now put out by Bridges' Policy Committee in the whole party's name. Example of what...
...shot showed up in at least three Southern newspapers, the Mobile Register, Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont and Aiken (S.C.) Standard and Review, without a ruffle. Picture Editor Howard Knapp of the New York Daily News spread it across Page One and called it: "The best picture of the year-it's got motion and emotion...