Word: gabrielsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plain citizens, they filled every seat, sat cross-legged on the concrete floor, munched the chicken legs of the new "poor man's" Lincoln Day box supper (cost $1), danced to Fred Waring's orchestra, sang with Cinemactor George Murphy, shouted themselves hoarse. Cried G.O.P. Chairman Guy Gabrielson: "From this night on, the Republican Party is going to be the strongest, most active and vigorous opposition party ever known!" (" 'ray!") When Ohio's Senator Robert Taft stood up, the arena burst into a roar of cheers. The oldest Washington Republicans could remember nothing quite like...
...Many Cooks . . . Outside Uline Arena, there was considerably less enthusiasm over the widely heralded "restatement of Republican Party principles" which the rally was intended to launch. Demanded by Gabrielson and reluctantly hammered together by a group of Congressmen-who would rather have run on their own records and on local issues-the statement was just what might have been expected of the product of so many hands. It was guarded where it should have been outspoken; diffuse where it might have been concise. It sounded no clarion...