Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House. Better that we should all skate around on the slippery ice of politics until 1960 than retain a man who knew all the rules where other men were concerned but considered himself sacrosanct when these rules applied to him. I am a Republican and I like and voted for Eisenhower. But I think Adams had all that has happened "coming to him," and I think Eisenhower made the ultimate mistake in not firing him pronto...
...York. Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49, announced his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, thereby throwing the gauntlet to GOPolitician Len Hall, ex-National Committee chairman, who had announced earlier, had been hoping for a clear field for the August G.O.P. convention. Rockefeller, who turned down pleas that he run for Senator, is no professional politico, but he has built a distinguished longtime record in public service...
North Dakota. Ailing, cantankerous Senator William L. Langer, 71, was resoundingly renominated in the Republican primary. Last March the Republican convention dumped Wild Bill because he had been a fairly consistent Democratic voter in the Senate, chose instead devoted Party Hack Lieutenant Governor Clyde Duffy, 67, to run for Langer's Senate spot. Langer (an adopted son of the Sioux Indians), once the favorite of the now-divided Non-partisan League, could not have cared less, filed against Duffy in the primary, showed his craggy face on only three campaign trips, wound up with a whopping victory. One source...
...critic of Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Paul A. Dever, running for reelection. Dever arranged for his friend Bernard Goldfine to extend Fox about $400,000 in credit-and the Post suddenly became one of Dever's loudest backers. Similarly, Fox had pledged the Post to support Massachusetts' Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and abruptly switched position. His story now is that after discussions with others, including Neanderthal Republican Publisher Basil Brewer of New Bedford, Mass., he decided that Cabot Lodge was "soft on Communism" and that therefore he decided to move over and back Democratic Candidate John...
...aide rushed up to announce that the award was meant for Marquardt. Leaping after the fumble, Garcia failed to clear the air with another try: "Ladies and gentlemen, when he comes to Washington, Governor McFarland will receive his decoration," learned that Senatorial Hopeful Mac has an uphill fight against Republican Incumbent Barry Goldwater in the election this fall...