Word: gop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defended the old line GOP on Lincoln's Birthday...
...anguish of most major GOP businessmen, the Senate's Republicans rejected this principle, for the high-minded pleasure of casting 23 solid votes against something approved by Franklin Roosevelt. To the shame of many a thoughtful Western Democrat, many Democratic Western Senators rejected the principle, on the theory that the import of $4,411,853 worth of Argentine canned meats is injurious to the $1,144,000,000 U. S. cattle industry. In this emergency, the Administration feared to trust wholly to Kentucky's Alben Barkley, Senate leader. Afraid that "Peerless Leader'' Barkley might lose votes...
...Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Wis., burning up energy, microphones and the New Deal. The hard little attorney with the shoebrush mustache continued to make the best Republican speeches U. S. citizens have heard in many a day, continued also to be allotted the No. 2 slot, at most, by professional GOP ticket makers. The Dewey keynote-that the New Deal means defeatism-still echoed in the U. S. like a shout down a well...
...Other Republicans worked more quietly. In Kansas persistent Alf Landon finally grasped entire control of the State's GOP delegation (18 votes) to the Republican convention. Landon's strategy, concurred in by Liberals Joe Martin of Massachusetts, Ken Simpson of New York and Midwest leaders, as now planned, is simple. Expecting Michigan's Vandenberg and New York's Dewey to cancel each other out, the GOP liberals count Ohio's Taft as their chief foe. Mr. Taft, who has Hooverized about 300 Southern and miscellaneous delegates, will be kept, if possible, from gaining votes...
...many a newspaper the program drew meager headlines; more exciting as immediate news had been the selection of Philadelphia as the convention city, of June 24 as the convention date. Dopesters had picked Chicago; GOP wiseacres wanted to meet in borderline Illinois. But Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly promised a mingy $125,000 to meet convention expenses; more eloquently Philadelphia's Mayor Robert Lamberton promised to lay $200,000 on the line. Money talked...