Word: gop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the aegis of "prosperity," the Republican party sits complacently promising four more years of the same. The GOP proudly points to neatly balanced columns of figures and shinier cars and silver-plated doorknobs, and defies denial that the horn of plenty is overflowing. Although the Republican boast seems at first justified, when the figures are inspected and the plating is scraped away there remains a clouded picture of deception, illusion, and statistical manipulation...
...cursory look at the budget reveals the reason for this debts, and also sheds needed light on the National Incomer figure for the year 1954. The GOP revels in the whopping National Incomes over the past four years. In 1954 the total amounted to almost $300 billion. But National Incomes is total of public and private expenditures. The Government's expenditure for 1954 was over $35 billion, the highest it had been since the war year of 1954. This figure excludes military expenditures, which chalked up another $40 billion. These military costs remained abnormally high, despite a complete revamping...
Reed Benson, son of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, will speak tonight in Emerson F at 8 p.m. on GOP farm policy...
Braucher lauded the foreign policy achievements of the administration, including termination of the Korean War, the Austrian Peace Treaty, and a more favorable reaction to disarmament. He attacked hostile Democrats for criticism of administration officials, claiming that the same people who lamented the "fringe GOP assaults on the Democrats were now leading the attack on the Republicans...
Attacking the GOP theme of "peace and prosperity," he stated that "there is just about as much prosperity in the Middle West as peace in the Middle East, and the administration chooses to ignore both...