Word: republicans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Your article on Virginia's Governor Almond [Sept. 22] and the nation's oldest and most powerful political machine was excellent. As Horace ("Hunk") Henderson, young Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, put it, Virginia's government too long has been "of the Byrds, by the Byrds, and for the Byrds...
...cries of alarm from the professional hatchetmen were to be expected. "This evil man, bent on war, must be checked," shouted Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, who was promptly countered by New York's Republican Congressman Kenneth Keating for giving "aid and comfort" to the Communist enemy. Massachusetts' John Kennedy, stumping for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, blamed Dulles for having been caught in Quemoy and Matsu, implying that the U.S. should somehow have found a way to slip the islands out from under the Nationalists on the sly. Notably, leading Democrats Harry Truman and Adlai...
Reorganized. Where Adams had only one deputy-Persons-Staff Chief Jerry Persons will have three. Oklahoma City Publisher Bryce Harlow, 42, previously Persons' Capitol Hill assistant, becomes Deputy Assistant to the President for Congressional Affairs; former Chicago Alderman and Republican Mayoralty Candidate Robert Merriam, 40, becomes Deputy Assistant for Interdepartmental Affairs; a third deputy, still to be named, will act as Persons' immediate assistant. Leading prospect: Treasury Undersecretary Fred Scribner of Maine...
Labor. There is "a popular desire that labor unions be brought under some sort of control." But at the same time Republican candidates are being hurt by their support for right-to-work laws in such states as California, Ohio and Indiana...
...major Republican asset is the "sense of gratitude-which the China crisis has strengthened-that 'Eisenhower has kept us out of war.'" But Lubell noted "a significant change of attitude from two years ago." Today many voters "are looking to Washington for more vigorous leadership." The voters still like Ike (the Gallup poll this week found his popularity down 2% from August but still a healthy 56%). But the feeling is mostly personal, and Lubell found "a deep concern that Eisenhower may no longer be the master of the White House...