Word: republican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disowned. Among hard-pressed Republican politicians, Benson's proposals landed with a dismal thud. "It is serious. It is fantastic," said one top G.O.P. campaign boss in Washington, and noted that Benson's efforts have raised both subsidies and surplus, bringing nothing but blame for the Republicans. "Our men are going to have to disown it." Benson's plan was long since disowned by such party stalwarts as Ben Franklin Jensen, eleven-term G.O.P. Congressman from southwestern Iowa's Seventh District. By last week Ben Jensen, already fighting desperately to hold the seat that was once...
Democrats were delighted at the prospect of beefing up their new political strength in Republican farm strongholds. Presidential Aspirant Stuart Symington proclaimed a program to aid the small farmer, Jack Kennedy called for some original Democratic thinking, and Hubert Humphrey (who has never delivered on the new farm program he promised at the last session of Congress) predicted that the Benson wheat program would bring "lower prices and the largest crop in the history of the world." Iowa's Governor Herschel Loveless, vice-presidential hopeful recently picked to be a farm expert by the Democratic Advisory Council, worked away...
...quest for the Republican presidential nomination, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week made a daring, four-day, 35-appearance assault on Nixon Country-the Pacific Coast-and came out swinging. In California, heartland of the Nixon-for-President movement, Rocky got a few bruises, changed hardly a vote. His luck was better in the friendlier climate of Washington and Oregon (Oregon's crucial primary will be held next May). But wherever he went. Rockefeller left the strong impression of a slugger who is going to wage an all-out campaign for the nomination he wants...
Christopher T. Bayley '60, president of the HYRC, suggested last night that the HEC has become "a Republican entity" devoted to political education. Since it drifted away from its original function of supporting the President's 1956 election, the Eisenhower Club's activities have included taking preference polls, voter research projects, campaign work, and endorsing candidates...
...several areas the Club's activities overlapped those of the HYRC, which in part accounted for its decision to join the Young Republican Club. Both groups, for example, supported and did campaign work for William S. Barnes, assistant Dean of the Law School...