Word: republican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slightly below Ohio's Robert Taft on the list of targets for 1950, were sure they could beat him with either of two candidates. One was Colorado Governor William Lee Knous (rhymes with mouse), a lanky, homespun former mining-camp lawyer. If Knous entered the race, the conservative, Republican-tinged Denver Post reported last week (and if the results of a statewide poll held true), 65% of Colorado's voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with a federal judgeship, the Democrats had another odds...
...overly concerned by the pollsters findings, Millikin stoutly predicted that "any Republican candidate for the Senate in Colorado will win ... in 1950." But he was worried enough to take a tip from Ohio's Taft. Last week Gene Millikin was off on a two-week tour, renewing old friendships and cultivating new votes in his home state...
...Republican Party's strategy committee huddled in Chicago last week to devise a strategy for the 1950 congressional campaign, and perhaps even the presidential race of 1952. The strategy: 1) immobilize the party's moderates and liberals, 2) uncompromising opposition to everything the Democrats stand...
...need money, money and more money to get the organization rolling again," explained Illinois' Fred Virkus, a megaphone for the Colonel Bertie McCormick wing of the G.O.P. "But you are not going to get the money until you can answer the question, 'What does the Republican Party stand for?' in a way that everybody can understand...
National Chairman Guy Gabrielson and the rest of the strategy committee endorsed the chairman's words. But two facts stood in the way of translating the words into an undeviating policy. Republican policy in 1950 will be made by the party's congressional leaders who did not attend the Chicago meeting. And few politicians believe that Republicans can recapture the decisive votes of the nation's political independents with a program of indiscriminate opposition...