Word: gop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rankin has both major parties in a very nasty position. Democratic leaders cannot require their forces to oppose the pension bill, unless they want a full-scale mutiny on their hands. The GOP is similarly tied, although Republicans can hardly deny some satisfaction at the sight of the Administration taking a licking. Two veterans' organizations have had the courage to fight Rankin's bill; but the efforts of the American Veterans Committee and the Amvets cannot match the elephantine maneuvers of the American Legion, which has blessed the measure with all the prestige of around 4,000,000 Legionnaires...
...Senators who voted down Vice-President Barkley's anti-filibuster ruling on Friday, exactly half were Republicans. Most of the GOP bloc was from the conservative Mid-West, led by Arthur Vandenberg. The issue, as Vandenberg put it, was not civil rights. The Republicans indeed clasped these rights to their bosoms many years ago. Vandenberg disagreed with Barkley on principle; he just felt that the Parliamentary rule in question did not apply to debate on a motion to introduce a measure. To pretend that it did, Vandenberg said, would be tainting the worthy end of civil rights by using unwholesome...
...future for the present Congress. If Tory Republicans earnestly determine to make the Eightieth Congress another "do-nothing" session, they can at least block important items of the Fair Deal, with the aid of fellow-conservatives from the South. And this would be in spite of the GOP party platform which agrees with the Fair Deal in such significant areas as civil rights. It looks as though the Old Guarders hate the Administration more than they adore their own professed program for the national welfare...
...GOP-initiated labor legislation must be repealed...
...GOP had consistently failed to uphold his bipartisan foreign policy...