Word: gop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This intense ambition perhaps might be sensed if one examined the literature handed out closely enough. For instance in the newsletter of the Harvard Young Republican Club, the President of the club, remarks significantly, "Aid to the GOP can not be looked on as altruistic, since we must live in the future we make for ourselves." He also states, "that when any Republican is contesting the seat of any Democrat, it is always wisest to support the Republican." This even if the candidate is of little merit...
...both houses of state legislatures in eight Western states. In Colorado they won both houses for the first time in twenty years, in Oregon for the first time since 1878, and in California the Democrats tied for control of the Senate which had been controlled by the GOP since...
Democratic gains were also noted in country and local elections in every state but Utah. This was the only Western state in which the Republicans gained strength, attributable to very poor Democratic organization and the increased popularity of the GOP among the Mor-mons, who comprise two-thirds of Utah's population. Eisenhower's appointment and apparent approval of Ezra Taft Benson, a high official of the Mormon Church, as Secretary of Agriculture and of Ivy Baker Priest as Treasurer has greatly increased the power of the Republican party in Utah...
...bill has been too drastically cut in many instances," Rep. Martin of Massachusetts, the House GOP leader, told newsmen...
...Eisenhower Republicans were hurting badly from the budget flap, and they made no secret of the fact that they thought Ike's lack of leadership was to blame. Not only had Democrats and Old Guard Republicans gained strength from the general confusion (headlined the New Rochelle.N.Y. Standard-Star: GOP TELLS IKE TO GO JUMP IN BUDGET LAKE), but Ikemen had nothing of their own to cling to. Reasons: 1) in order to make speeches defending the budget, an Eisenhower Republican had to accept the President's word that it was sound; 2) every time an Ikeman staked...