Word: anding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Washington, G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton hailed Iowa's Fourth. "An indication that the Republican Party is on its way to a great victory in 1960," he crowed. The election was indeed a useful clue, but it was not quite a harbinger of another Republican springtime. It indicated...
"We went from Black Sunday to White Wednesday," crowed an Agriculture Department official in Washington last week. Suddenly whitened were Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's prospects of hanging on until the end of the Eisenhower Administration despite huge crop surpluses and massive farm-program spending.
On Benson's Black Sunday he was in Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, convalescing from a gall bladder operation and brooding about the campaign by high-level Republicans to dump him as a political liability. The day before, Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton had dropped a blackjack...
After the program, Benson telephoned Morton, arranged an appointment with him for the following day. Then Benson wrote out a statement: "Resign? I am resigned to one thing: to do my duty as I see it, to continue my fight for a prosperous, expanding and free agriculture." In a 45...
Next day came the brightening. The voters in Iowa's Fourth District elected a Republican to fill the unexpired term of a Democratic Congressman who had died in office (see below), and the outcome seemed to show that simply denouncing Benson is not quite so surefire a method of...