Word: gabrielsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before anybody knew what John Foster Dulles was going to say, Washington's pundits were debating another point: for whom was he talking? A State Department spokesman purposefully implied that State had nominated Republican Adviser Dulles to answer Republican ex-President Hoover. G.O.P. Chairman Guy Gabrielson said tartly that Dulles wasn't speaking for any Republicans that Gabrielson knew. Dulles himself got off a wire to Hoover saying that he did not intend to do battle with Hoover, though they might disagree in spots. Then he stepped before the microphones...
...Dissatisfactions. Trumpeted Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson: "The attempt ... to insinuate that Republican victory mea°ns a revival of isolationism is an unworthy fraud and deceit." Alexander Wiley announced that the results meant only a "closer supervision" of foreign aid funds. "There need not be fear that Congress will slash foreign aid with a meat ax," he said...
...rumor that would not be downed in Washington was that Secretary of State Dean Acheson would be out by the first of the year. The election gave it new impetus. "I would assume with these election results," said Harold Stassen, "that Secretary Acheson would resign." G.O.P. National Chairman Guy Gabrielson felt the same way. Republican Senators, including Joe McCarthy and Bourke Hickenlooper, began warming up for new investigations of the State Department...
...reporters laughed, and Gabrielson, after thinking over his words, joined in. For Democrat McCarran, during his 18 years in the Senate, had been about as fond of New and Fair Deal medicines as Carrie Nation was of bourbon. Before the 1938 primaries, when F.D.R. himself went inland to have his say on candidates, he visited Nevada, but haughtily ignored McCarran's candidacy for renomination; McCarran had angrily fought too many New Deal measures. Shaggy Pat won anyway, went back to the Senate to cry out against aid to embattled France and Britain ("One American...
...first he did not even bother to go back home and campaign; he won the Democratic renomination without trying. He is considered an odds-on favorite to defeat earnest Republican George Marshall, an ex-district judge, despite what Guy Gabrielson said. As Pat drove or flew from one Nevada town to another, it was easy to see why. He knew, and had gotten jobs, furloughs or information for, hundreds of the people he shook hands with. "How," asked one Nevada editor, "can you beat a man like that...