Word: gop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complacent over the chances of their national ticket this year, but they have fond and quite reasonable hopes of taking over the Senate. Democratic candidates are favored to displace four Republicans, which would give the elder party a 49 to 47 majority in the next Upper House. But the GOP may be able to keep Senate control by unseating Democrats in turn. In five states where Democrats are wobbly--Tennessee, New Mexico, Montans, Colorado, and Texas--the Republicans are desperately pouring in funds and slick campaign speakers...
While Elmo Roper and Thomas E. Dewey have assured the American people that the presidential election this year will be a mere formality, Republican chiefs are quaking in their well-polished boots over the future of the Senate. Since 1946, the GOP has held a modest 51 to 45 edge. But of the 17 Republican seats up for vote in November, no less than eight may fall to the Democrats--yet of the 14 Democratic seats, only four or five are doubtful. An over-all gain of four seats would give control of the upper house back to the Democrats...
...efforts to maintain the status quo, but in four others, they are more secure. Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper has enough popularity with independents to offset the advantage his rival, Virgil Chapman, will have in Barkley's candidacy. Homer Ferguson in Michigan, and Curley Brooks in Illinois are two GOP veterans who can reasonably expect to return to Washington, while in Oklahoma neither Republican Rizley nor Democrat Kerr can claim much advantage...
Calling the present GOP organization "the most progressive Republican party in the past 25 years," Morse went on to state that the most important issue in this election is seeing that both Congress and executive belong to the same party. "If I wore sure that we would have a Democratic Congress, I would vote for a Democratic President," Morse asserted...
Revell said the Democratic and Republican parties both stand for the same principles. Admitting that the GOP had the election wrapped up, he insisted that "a vote for Thomas will not be wasted. It is certainly no more useless than a vote for Truman...