Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, would you care to assess the Republican chances in the '58 campaign...
...President Eisenhower's disarmament adviser, ten-year Pennsylvania Resident Stassen (he was president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1948 to 1952) returned home, ignored taunts of "carpetbagger," solicited endorsement as the party's candidate for governor. He was rebuffed by the unanimous decision of 67 Republican county chairmen. Nevertheless, he filed. Then he set out like underdog to sniff out anti-organization Republican little wheels, to capitalize on his name and fame by charming the ladies' clubs and the luncheon circuit. Touring solemnly from town to town in his green Edsel sedan, Stassen, 51, made...
Died. Paul Andrew Dever, 55, two-term Governor of Massachusetts (1949-53), who keynoted the 1952 Democratic convention, orated on and on against Republican "dinosaurs of political thought" while his suit became swampy with perspiration and his voice faded away to sandpaper hoarseness; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Sometimes known as the man of "girth and grins," the roly-politician was one of the canniest who ever sat on Beacon Hill, built up a formidable personal machine that almost withstood the Eisenhower landslide of 1952, when Republican Christian Herter won the Massachusetts governorship...
...When the pieties turn out not to be identical twins. Dermot is doomed. It is 1940. and in the farmhouse kitchen the O'Neills happily record Hitler's latest victory over the British. By tradition. England's extremity is Ireland's opportunity, and the Irish Republican Army-after a long time in the doldrums-is "out" again. Its members have the illusion that Hitler's war aims include Irish "freedom." The young village buckoes give up their Gaelic football in favor of what the parish curate calls the national pastime-giving the British "a touch...
Senator A. S. Mike Monroney, speaking before the Young Democratic Club Saturday, stated that the Republican administration suffers from a "recession in ideas." He accused the Republicans of "looking backward instead of forward" and of "underestimating the intelligence of the American people...