Word: gop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martin's loss to Rep. Halleck is very sad, on the one hand," Rudolph continued. "But, on the other hand, the 1958 election was a liberal victory. The Republicans seem to have taken the results to heart." Martin's 20-year term as GOP leader was ended by the so-called "liberal" faction of his party...
...vote, taken in a secret session on the eve of the new session of Congress, was 74 for Halleck and 70 for the Massachusetts congressman who has been the House GOP leader for 20 years...
...match Russia step by step in military development, meanwhile struggling to uphold their "idiotic policy on the China coast," Bowles stated in an address in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. He strongly asserted, however, that his party was equally at fault for "not standing up and questioning the GOP policy...
...senators will also go to Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco, or wherever the quadrennial spectacle is staged, holding their state delegations under tight control. Humphrey's engineering of the GOP collapse in Minnesota pretty well assures him a united delegation. The governor, Orville Freeman, is his boy; and the pro-Kefauver faction which split Minnesota's votes in 1956 has been pretty well extinguished. Symington holds Missouri, Kennedy can count on New England, and Gore, Kefauver to the contrary notwithstanding, controls Tennessee. Lyndon Johnson certainly doesn't have to worry about Texas, and probably not very much about the rest...
...Massachusetts Republicans discussed last night how the GOP should rebuild after its "decisive and devastating defeat" in the 1958 elections. The two, both candidates in the '58 elections, spoke before the Eisenhower Club...