Word: gop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charging the present Republican party with "vacillation and split personality," the Harvard Young Republican Club voted Tuesday night to submit its own national reorganization plan to GOP party leaders...
...GOP Would Have Made Changes...
...Republican Senate dropped stone-cold dead in the electoral market three days ago, and nobody paid it much mind more exciting things were going on. Even before Tuesday, the GOP 51 to 45 Senatorial margin was pretty clearly in for a slice, if not obliteration. It was obliterated, all right, for not only did the Democratic Party hold all of its own seats, but it knocked off nine held by the Republicans. The new Senate line-up is a fat 54 to 42 for the President's party...
Besides these three coups, Democrats won all the races that were figured as "close." In Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey walloped Senator Joe Ball; Conservative Democrats Virgil Chapman and Guy Gillette defeated GOP incumbents in Kentucky and Iowa, respectively; and Robert Kerr easily out-distanced Ross Rizley in Oklahoma...
Some notable GOP Senators managed to hand on to their chairs. Leverett Saltonstall stood firmly against the Massachusetts whirlwind, and Homer Ferguson successfully resisted the kind of assault in Michigan that ousted Republican Governor Kim Sigler. Other Republicans were safe in densely-GOP states; Bridges in New Hampshire, and Wherry in Nebraska, for example...