Word: gop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-nine House Republicans-all first or second-termers-joined in a broadside last week which stated that the present GOP House leadership does not necessarily speak for them. "Every member of Congress," they said, "has a right and duty to express himself with entire freedom." That was what they proposed to do in the future...
Politicians soon shared the cowboy respect for Elfego. At the state GOP convention in 1911, Republicans nominated him for Congress. (He lost by 119 votes.) His last major campaign was in 1934, when, nearing 70, he lost a fight for the governorship...
...still has a fight ahead. Next November he faces the state's popular, third-term Democratic Governor: tall, stooped John Moses. And some 60,000 Republicans, roughly two-thirds of all the state's GOP primary voters, had testified at the 'polls last week that they are anti-Gerald...
First it was radishes. Not holly-hocks. Not geraniums. Nothing majestic and beautiful; not even GOP sunflowers. Just plain garden-variety radishes. But the curious public soon cleaned out the Yard's first useful food crop, and it seemed that grass would, after all, be the main product of several months' tilling of the soil...
...called for "fewer and better Roosevelts", and in 1936 he was the Republicans' violently anti-New Deal vice-presidential nominee). But in June 1940, Knox and fellow Republican Henry L. Stimson entered Franklin Roosevelt's cabinet. He knew the move would be linked with the GOP convention which followed it, instead of the fall of France which preceded it. Said he: "I will be shot at from all sides, damned and denounced [but] I am an American first and a Republican after that...