Word: gop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admitting that vested interests in the GOP render it inherently the conservative political unit in America, and granting that the chances for a successful third party are open to great debate. Schlesinger concluded that the target for liberals during the next seven years would be "recapturing the Democratic Party...
Similar paradoxes occur repeatedly. The long ballot and a neat system of gerrymandering have resulted in unbroken GOP control of the General Court and the Congressional delegations for twenty years or more. Yet Massachusetts' electoral votes have not been in the Republican column since the Coolidge-Davis race of 1924. Democratic governors won easily from 1920 through 1936, but never had an Executive Council they could call their...
...resident of Wellesley and mother of two children, Mrs. Sharp carried on relief work in France, Czechoslovakia, and Portugal for both the American Red Cross and the Unitarian Service Committee during 1939, 1940, and 1945. If successful, her campaign will unseat a GOP stalwart--present House Minority Leader--who will become Speaker of the House in the event of a Republican sweep...
...charts which graphically analyzed the bitter truth. In the last 14 years of Los Angeles County's tremendous (47%) growth, the Republicans had managed to win only 4% of the new voters. In the last two years the gain was a microscopic one-fifth of 1%. The county GOP had only four permanent employes-"not as many as it takes to run a good neighborhood grocery." Even the Communist Party had more permanent office space...
Perhaps it was already too late for mere talk about solidarity; some good solid political threats might be in order. The GOP-Dixie Democratic opposition appeared to have an unbreakable grip on the legislative reins. Last week the opposition had got together to the point of moving out into the open and organizing its own steering committee to shape its battle plans...