Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clyde Martin Reed Jr., 44, seemed shy and diffident to Kansas Republicans who remembered his outgoing and handsome father, the late crusading editor (Parsons Sun), able Governor (1929-31) and well-known U.S. Senator (1939-49). But Junior, now the Sun's publisher, did his best. He took a public-speaking course, worked so hard for the Republican nomination for Governor that he got home only six nights in the last three months of the campaign, traveled 30,000 miles and walked two pairs of soles off his shoes. Last week, by a vote...
Reed's huge majority welded the Kansas Republican Party together in a way to threaten, for the first time, Democrat Docking's hope of becoming Kansas' first two-term Democratic Governor in November. The last three Democratic Governors in orthodox Republican Kansas, recalled Clyde Reed, from lessons learned at his daddy's knee, were beaten by Republicans from his area. One of them by his own father...
...Virgin Islands, one of the tiniest (132 sq. mi.) of U.S. territories, President Eisenhower last week nominated a new Governor and fellow Republican, John David Merwin. He is the youngest (36) and the first native-born islander of the eight civil Governors named since the U.S. bought the Virgins from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million...
From the family closet of Republican Attorney General William Pierce Rogers came a political skeleton: daughter Dale, 21, a senior at Cornell University, is a registered Democrat. Said her mother, in a ragged defense: "When politics comes up at home, she is pretty much...
...faith was supposed to extend to 1,000 or more herbs, minerals, metals and even precious stones listed in the ayurvedic pharmacopoeia. (The gems were once favored by the practitioners who list themselves in India's telephone books as "sex splst," were supposed to increase virility. With the republican leveling-down, few patients can afford ground-up precious stones, or even pearls. So they settle for sea shells. But they still flock to the ayurvedic sex splst...