Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwight Eisenhower slapped hard on the Cabinet table in front of him, snapped Republican congressional leaders out of their early-morning reverie. "It's a dole," said the President of the U.S. "I'm not going to stand for it." Ike was angered by the attempts of congressional Democrats to turn his unemployment-compensation bill into a loosely drawn federal handout to the states. And last week's humiliating defeat of the Democratic bill in the House of Representatives (see The Congress) was impressive evidence that Dwight Eisenhower-looking better and feeling better, more willing to fight...
...have got a duty, as I see it, to keep him as well-informed on the operations of this Government, all of the major decisions, as I possibly can . . . Now, when it comes to the successor, as far as I am concerned the candidate will be named by the Republican Party, and I submit that I think there are a lot of darn good men that could be used...
...supports at their present level. Those vetoes told the Congress, which had long since come to the point of discounting presidential influence, that Ike means business. For the first time G.O.P. congressional leaders are able to count on partisan coordination-instead of benign nonpartisanship-from the White House. Says Republican Whip Les Arends of Illinois: "Those veto actions firmed things up as far as we Republicans are concerned...
...floor of the House one afternoon last week, Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills manfully walked over and reached out a congratulatory hand to Republican Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois. Arends smiled broadly, said: "Sorry to do this to you, Wilbur." What Arends and his G.O.P. colleagues had done was indeed worth a handshake. With a remarkable rebuke to Ways & Means Chairman Mills, the House, after two days of strenuous debate, voted down a $1.5 billion Democratic proposal for extending unemployment compensation benefits that President Eisenhower had called "a dole." Passed instead, with minor revisions, was the moderate $587 million bill originally...
...attempt to gain a charter from the Republican State Committee, the Harvard Eisenhower Club has begun an all-out drive to recruit freshman members with a special plan for installment memberships. One of the two Executive Committee members canvassing the dorms speculated yesterday that "theoretically, at our present rate, we could get 200 members...