Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than 1,000,000 to about 400,000. This year the machine may not be able to raise enough money to pay for poll watchers in Philadelphia. Such is the sorry state of the regular G.O.P. organization that it could not even produce 100 ushers for Vice President Richard Nixon's Philadelphia speech early this month. (The Citizens for Eisenhower finally rounded up the volunteer ushers, picked up the radio and television tab, turned the affair into a success...
...Republican, guided-missiles specialist and onetime (1955-56) Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development, who quit his job in disgust with the slow pace of the missiles program, said he would "vote the straight Democratic ticket." ¶The Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, which endorsed Eisenhower-Nixon in 1952, polled the editors of its 19 papers for 1956 sentiments, got back a unanimous repeat endorsement...
...Minneapolis Star and Tribune, endorsing Eisenhower-Nixon as it did in 1952, explained: Ike has stabilized the dollar and produced "almost full employment"; he has "proved himself always surefooted" in foreign affairs; and "Richard Nixon has been a first-rate Vice President...
...obvious concerns was the U.S. Supreme Court. But none of the Justices now living in Washington has children of school age. Last year Vice President Nixon's two daughters attended the Horace Mann School, which had one Negro. Among their schoolmates were the son of Interior Secretary Frederick Seaton and the children of Senators Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and Thomas Kuchel of California...
...report estimated that 65 per cent of Yale's undergraduates favor Eisenhower, although they were described as bipartisan in their ability to create demonstrations. They booed Vice-President Nixon last Thursday and they staged a "near riot" when Stevenson appeared there...