Word: gop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down this year in the Republican City Committee 47-13, they went ahead and joined the New Boston Committee, a non-partisan organization that endorsed seven Democrats and two Republicans. Fine as this choice may sound, it pulled the rug out from under the other three Republicans running. Boston GOP voters (who have never numbered less than 75,000 regardless of how many have registered as such) were misled by the Shattuck-Forbes, Lund endorsement of the NBC into believing that their party was supporting Democrats. This split the GOP vote and three of the five Republican candidates lost...
...nine NBC endorsees all placed in the primary's first eighteen with the combined strength of 50,000 votes. If the GOP had marshalled thirty or forty percent of its minimum 75,000 votes behind its five candidates, this support plus the votes picked up in the candidates own wards would probably have been enough to put all five in the primary's top eighteen...
President Conant stands fair to be the GOP's dark horse presidential nominee for '52, according to a Gallup poll published in last week's Look. The 58-year-old University head placed fifth in the national survey. The poll assumed that Eisenhower would not accept the nomination...
With political conventions less than a year away, and presidential primaries only months in the future, speculation and prediction on the fate of the GOP are rife. Despite the setback in his Dewey victory forcast in '48, Gallup feels that Truman could not stand against a popular and non-controversial Republican. Now that this party has control, albeit split control, of Congress, the time has come to put a Republican in the White House. Elsewhere Gallup, as well as other political observers, have expressed the belief that another defeat for the GOP would make way for the rise...
With political conventions less than a year away, and presidential primaries only months in the future, speculation and prediction on the fate of the GOP are rife. Despite the setback in his Dewey victory forcast in '48, Gallup feels that Truman could not stand against a popular and non-controversial Republican. Now that this party has control, albeit split control, of Congress, the time has come to put a Republican in the White House. Elsewhere Gallup, as well as other political observers, have expressed the belief that another defeat for the GOP would make way for the rise...