Word: gop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every formal talk. Meanwhile the well-trained Stassen organization bombarded voters with letters and telephone calls, turned out with their cars on election day to get the Stassen votes to the polls. Beyond that, Harold Stassen had the support and vote-getting pull of Senator Joe McCarthy and former GOP State Chairman Tom Coleman. When the votes were counted, Harold Stassen had propelled himself into the front rank of GOPresidential candidates...
...slapped him and his union with a $3,510,000 fine (later reduced to $710,000) for being in contempt in a similar case. There was a suspicion also that Lewis saw a chance to humiliate Harry Truman by throwing credit for solving the coal strike to GOP Speaker Joe Martin...
...week's end, chances of the U.S. being one of the two looked doubtful. Said one GOP leader: "It is dead and going to stay dead. The word has gone out to that effect . . . there are some members who don't want to get mixed up with Russia in that kind of a deal." Public health men were indignantly reminding Congressmen that cholera germs do not respect national boundaries, or even iron curtains...
...House and Arthur Vandenberg is clearly and predictably a statesman. Thus he is esteemed in all quarters except those envenomed by the Chicago Tribune or perverted by fellow travelers. In New Hampshire, for example, many Deweymen and Stassenmen were second-choice Vandenbergmen. In sum, the private conversations of many GOP wise men were expressed by Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "There is no doubt that Vandenberg is now the man on whom the active candidates could most readily come together ... of no other man can it be said that there are so many Republicans who trust...
...gop a couple of bad breaks" revealed Stretch Cryton, Mastoden gridiron mogul, after his slippery band of touch football titalists dropped a close one to Pierson. His cohort, "balding Stu" Bottle, had already flied to the bluffs...