Word: gop
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Chairman of the Republican Finance Committee for three years, Weeks has been in the Senate since 1944, when he was appointed to fill the place of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, who left for the Army. Weeks has served as GOP national committeeman since 1940. Previously chairman of the state committee, he was one of Eisenhower's earliest backers, and is a director of several Boston firms...
...proposition advanced in this editorial is that the GOP won because it adopted the witch-hunting technique of "the McCarthys, the Jenners, the Kems, and the Cains." Your implication is that Fascism (sic) is just around the corner if "the current drive for conformity" continues...
This of course does not prove that McCarthyism alone elected Eisenhower. What, in out opinion, it does suggest is that, among all the complex issues which determined the election, the Reds-in-government issue--by paring down the national Democratic big-city vote--played a leading part in the GOP victory. The Reds was a primus inter pares, if you wish, among the issues...
...victory, for the other votes he garnered were the ones everyone expected him to win. And to whom must we credit these pivotal votes? To Eisenhower, yes, but just as much to the McCarthys, the Jenners, the Kems, and the Cains, who did so much to clothe the GOP and its nominee with the garb of witch-hunting which at first was their own exclusive zoot suit. And, we believe, it was Eisenhower's enthusiastic espousel of the Reds issue which attracted the countless worried Catholic voters, his constant pounding on supposed softness, and his promise to root out Pinks...
Schneider's Silver Coronet Band, serenaded the victorious GOP throughout the evening and with Ike's victory assured, many Republicans and their dates abandoned the seats around the TV sets and danced in quiet jubilation...