Word: capehart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exactly expressed my sentiments," said Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, G.O.P. floor leader in the Senate. "I agree with many of the general principles he states," said Ohio's Bob Taft, now a prime molder of G.O.P. foreign policy in the Senate. Indiana's 100% Isolationist Homer Capehart rejoiced: "I agree with Mr. Hoover 100%." "The people are with him," proclaimed Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune. (Its enthusiasm barely exceeded that of the Communist Party's Daily Worker, which appreciatively turned over its big headline type to Hoover's speech...
...Eugene Millikin, jovial, conservative G.O.P. stalwart, showed surprising strength in defeating Fair Dealer John Carroll in Colorado. ¶ Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin and Homer Capehart of Indiana, three conservative Midwest Republicans, beat their Fair Deal opponents. Three members of the G.O.P.'s progressive wing, Oregon's Wayne Morse, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey and Vermont's George Aiken, also won handily...
...President . . ." Many readers will disagree with Merry-Go-Round's political judgments and be bored with its unending succession of paste-up biographical sketches. But few will fail to enjoy its deadpan vignettes of Washington life. In one of these, a brief speech by Senator Homer Capehart, the occasional mystery and sadness of representative government are epitomized...
Democratic National Chairman William Boyle Jr. chugged into the White House to report to the chief, and chugged out again, to predict solid Democratic gains in November. He said confidently that the Democrats would retire Taft, Capehart and Donnell from the Senate. (Democrats were sure that "Mr. Republican," Ohio's Taft, was hurting himself by his opposition to the President's mobilization program...
...whether the atmosphere had changed enough was another matter. Harry Truman still said stubbornly that he saw no reason for going any further than he already had. Conservative Republicans -e.g., Indiana's Capehart, Ohio's Taft- still thought that even the Truman program, though far short of the Baruch proposal, went...