Word: ohio
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...last week's elections it was such moderate Republicans as New York's Nelson Rockefeller, Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott and Oregon's Mark Hatfield who scored most dramatically; it was such Old Guard Republicans as Ohio's John Bricker, Nevada's George Malone, Indiana's Harold Handley, California's Bill Knowland and West Virginia's Chapman Rever-omb who took the most sensational drubbings. Clearly the congressional Republican Party had a more middle-road look after the elections than before...
...Republican politicians on a don't-quote-me basis. "They insisted on right-to-work." Then, turning to Washington newsmen, he said: "Strike the word 'stupid.' " And then, five minutes later, he shook his head and cried again: "Those stupid Republican-businessmen." Echoed Ohio's Republican State Chairman Ray Bliss after seeing his state ticket swamped by Ohio's landslide against right-to-work: "During the past year I repeatedly warned the proponents of this issue that this defeat would be the possible consequence. They chose to ignore my warnings...
...first-half recession and its jittery aftermath was a basic cause of Republican defeat, especially in such still-troubled spots as West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Effect of the recession issue: Democratic congressional leaders, apparently willing to go slow as long as recovery continues, will be standing by to start priming the pumps as never before the moment the economy turns down...
Neglected by the party leader in the White House, Republican organization fell almost completely apart while Democrats put together smooth-working machines in state after state. In California, Indiana and Utah, Republican factions spent more time fighting each other than fighting Democrats. But in Ohio Democrat Di Salle, beaten by O'Neill by 428,000 votes in 1956, went to work with State Chairman William Coleman, spent two years building up an effective organization, during the campaign held at least seven seminars in every congressional district to teach workers the best vote-hunting techniques. In Minnesota Democratic Representative Eugene...
...week's end Ike boarded Columbine III for a trip to Seattle for an address this week to a meeting of the 18-nation Colombo Plan organization, set up by the British Commonwealth in 1950 to foster economic development in Asia. On the way, he stopped off in Ohio for a spell of duckhunting as the guest of his good friend and former Treasury Secretary, Cleveland Millionaire George Magoffin Humphrey. Arriving at Toledo, which had gone overwhelmingly Democratic three days earlier, Ike found an airport crowd of 2,500 waiting in 42° chill to show him that...