Word: gop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hostility ranged in degree. Michigan's Homer Ferguson and California's William Knowland were not really happy about the nomination. Nevada's crusty Democrat, Pat McCarran, joined the GOP opposition; Bohlen's link with Yalta, he said, is "enough for me." Ohio's Robert Taft, in his role of Republican pacifier, thought the Moscow ambassadorship not important enough for a big intraparty battle. "Our Russian ambassador can't do anything. He is in a box at Moscow. All he can do is observe and report. He will not influence policy materially...
After the coming of the New Deal, Bob La Follette and his younger brother Philip formally organized the insurgent Progressive Party.* Father La Follette had kept it-barely-within the GOP, as a billowing reform movement. And though they swept Wisconsin in 1936, the progressives never really got off the ground. The New Deal appropriated many pet La Follette dreams, e.g., collective bargaining, unemployment compensation, and took credit for them to boot. But through the '30s, Young Bob worked faithfully in alliance with the New Deal on its domes tic program (exception: he wanted...
...warned that their brand of sense might force the United States into a general war, these Republicans seem to assume that Mao would no more retaliate on a large scale than cannonade a flea colony. A contradiction lurks here, though the vagaries which often pass for arguments in the GOP, especially on the subject of China, obscure...
...deeper, it's apparent that Republicans think flinging Chiang at China will divert Red troops from Korea. This is comfortably plausible, yet involves other events equally plausible which should make the GOP swallow hard...
...Republicans chose to turn it into a political question in the lowest sense: what can we sell our votes for: They sold them for Southern votes for high tariffs, tax swindles (officially known as loopholes), and all these little plots so dear to the GOP's heart...