Word: gop
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...GOP side: Iowans' choices for "best Republican": Willkie (who visited the state during balloting), 34%; Dewey, 30%. In the previous poll Dewey led Willkie...
...Also publisher in Illinois of the Aurora Beacon-News, Elgin Courier-News, Joliet Herald News, Springfield Illinois State Journal; for six terms (1911-23) an Illinois GOP Congressman, long a utilitycoon...
Politicking. In the ill-proportioned Illinois Capitol, whose windows look out over the rolling Lincoln country, Republicans cheerfully and riotously voted an investigation of fuel oil rationing. (The House GOP leader applied an old gag to a new situation: "I hear that a lot of parents around the United States are being called Key Birds-they shudder down in the bottom of their cages and say, 'Key-rist, it's cold.' ") It made little difference that this is a Federal problem: Illinoisans must be kept informed (and GOPsters can gather a little campaign material). By the time...
...lines in Congress are tightly drawn. Last year Republicans refused to join Southern Democrats in a concerted attack on the Wagner Act, but during this session, when the GOP is counting on Southern support in many crucial votes, Republicans may have to reciprocate. Such a coalition may easily carry...
...York Herald Tribune, a pretty good Republican itself, does not make a practice of biting other good Republicans. Last week it bit two: Clarence Budington Kelland and GOP Chairman Joseph Martin...