Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took over the ailing, family-owned New York Herald Tribune in 1955 with the triple-threat title of publisher-president-editor. "Brownie" Reid set out to counter the Times's thoroughness with livelier stories, editorial fun and promotion games. But heading out in the new direction, the Modern Republican Trib slumped badly, last September went to its good friend, Modern Republican John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 53, currently Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, for a reported $2,000,000 loan...
...Home Again. In Lyndhurst, N.J., Guy Pezzolla stayed home from the polls because of a cold, later had to console his wife, a candidate for Republican committeewoman, who lost by one vote...
Claussen, vice-president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, said he was "quite disappointed." This "dictatorial" action "is surprising," he said, since two weeks ago Eliot Bernat '60, president of the HEC, claimed the HYRC was governed "dictatorially" by a "corrupt group." Claussen commented that Bernot "should not criticize another club when his own house is not in order...
Bernat made his accusations before the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Republican Party, in an unsuccessful appeal for a Republican charter for the Eisenhower Club. Claussen gave no importance to the fact that his mother is a member of the Executive Committee which rejected Bernat's petition...
Claussen would be admitted to the HEC if he would "repent of all his conservative beliefs" and become "more liberal," Bernat claimed. Claussen called this stand "quite strange, since I am vice-president of an organization chartered by the Republican Party, of which Eisenhower is the leader. It is paradoxical that any club supporting Eisenhower should reject my application for membership." Like most of the HEC's 30 members, Bernat supports the Stalker-Peterson faction of the HYRC, while Claussen is a member of the Dawson group...