Word: republicans
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...with labor. A member of the national board of Americans for Democratic Action, he was long a particular favorite of the U.A.W. But during his 1955-56 congressional term, he polled his Sixth District farmers, found them strongly in favor of flexible price supports-and therefore voted for the Republican Administration's farm program. His vote infuriated the U.A.W., which by no means confines its Sixth District interests to labor policy. High, rigid farm subsidies are an article of the U.A.W.'s national Democratic faith, and Hayworth found himself accused of treason. Big Labor refused to back Hayworth...
Mapping his own breakneck campaign, Republican Chamberlain must work with different equations. He knows that a huge Genesee County turnout, born of economic unrest, could swallow him up. He has therefore thrown most of his remarkable energies into holding his own in labor's county. "I will lose the county," he says, "but I'm trying to keep my losses to a minimum. I'm trying to let the laboring man know that there is nothing inconsistent with my being a Republican and being interested in the welfare of the individual worker." Even while trying to stave...
When Prosecutor Chamberlain squeaked past Representative Don Hayworth in 1956, he was one of only nine U.S. Republicans to oust incumbent Democrats from House seats. He landed in Washington with bright expectations: "I was kind of steamed up about being on the team and finding out who the quarterback was." He found out all right: the only quarterback for Chuck Chamberlain was Chuck Chamberlain. "My God," he recalls, "the Welcome Wagon came out to see Mrs. Chamberlain when we had the electric meter hooked up, but nobody from the Republican high command came around to see me." From House Republican...
Chamberlain began looking around, comparing notes with his colleagues to see how they met the problem of maintaining common bonds with their districts. He joined the Michigan Republican delegation at breakfast every other week, became a regular at the weekly Tuesday-afternoon sessions of the Acorn Club, an informal organization of freshmen Republican Congressmen who shared with Chamberlain the problem of learning. Such group meetings were helpful, but Chamberlain was still the only Representative from the Sixth District of Michigan, and slowly, painfully, he developed his own system of keeping pace with the folks back home...
...home in Marietta, Ohio, back in 1880, Charley Dawes outraged his family by playing the flute in the Democrats' campaign band, while his own father was running for Congress on the Republican ticket (he won). Later, Charles ("Hell 'n' Maria") Dawes became a Republican but stayed a flute player. He used his favorite instrument to relax from a hectic career during which he served seven Presidents-he started as McKinley's Comptroller of the Currency, was Vice President under Coolidge, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's for Hoover, left public life...