Word: gop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Montgomery sat down and the GOP National Committee Secretary, Mrs. Charles P. Howard, rose to present Senator Saltonstall "and," according to the program, "members of our Congressional delegation." Unfortunately, the delegation members had either not been able to come, or, like Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers, had not been able to stay. Senator Saltonstall was introduced as a man whose "Yankee integrity (is) reflected in his South Boston face...
...blue silk banner at one end of a Statler Hotel ballroom last Tuesday. Underneath it on a raised platform were three long tables, decked with boughs of spruce and fir, and in front of those were row on row of round tables with eight seats apiece. The Massachusetts GOP Finance Committee was holding its $100 a plate dinner, and all the chairs were filled with Republicans celebrating the birth of the Grand New Party...
...Senate GOP has much to gain by airing the Report which has had enough publicity to make it a powerful weapon against the Administration. The Democrats would probably like to wait until they can issue a new report based on Blanchard's document and their own answers...
...author of this article did not reveal the Republican "strength" in Boston by stating merely that the GOP has a minimum of 75,000 votes. He neglects to mention that the Democrats have a minimum strength of at least twice that number, and that according to both the registration rolls and the results of recent state and national elections, Party labels do not appear on the ballot. The leading candidates for municipal office are invariably Democratic. Republicans could not elect one of their men as mayor with the help of Aladdin's Lamp, but they can and do exert considerable...
...cases where GOP support of Democratic candidates is the only way to eliminate arch-crooks from city government, the Shattuck-Forbes-Lund advice is correct. But in a year when Republicans might have won several seats on the Council it amounts to a sellout, one which will render the GOP impotent and futureless...