Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provide for their keeping in the Archives Building in the national capital?" asked Republican John Schafer of Wisconsin...
...House rafters rang indeed with opposition. Republican John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, member of the Dies Un-American Activities Committee, leaped up to flay Poet MacLeish as a "fellow traveler" of the Communist Party, a cofounder of the League of American Writers ("of the 23, twelve were well-known Communists"), an active sympathizer with Loyalist Spain...
...Republican presidential nominee coupled his third term theory with a bitter attack upon the Administration's "pump-priming" and charged that this program was nullified by the President's constant "throwing of monkey wrenches" into the machinery of business and government...
...Florida the law says that a political party must poll at least 15% of votes cast in general elections to keep its place on the ballot at the next election. Two years ago the required figure was 30%, but the Legislature lowered it for the benefit of the Republican Party. Last week Florida's Legislature acted again, cut the figure to 5% for the vestigial...
...aware that MRA was a Buchmanite enterprise; among them Senator Borah and Attorney General Murphy, who said: "I know nothing about [MRA] except what is good." But a majority of the Hon. sponsors were bandwagon jumpers and politicians whose attitude was, "Hell, it's not controversial, is it?" Republican Minority Leader Joseph William Martin Jr., who had signed a statement for the MRA meeting's program ("Moral Re-Armament is a great need of the day"), said: "Sure, I'm for Moral Re-Armament, whatever that is. It's just like being against...