Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fulbright insisted that his bill was merely a "very small amendment" to an already existing program. Shouted Douglas: "Two billions may seem small to the Senator from Arkansas, but it seems rather large to the Senator from Illinois." Retorted Fulbright, dragging in the massive embezzlements uncovered in Illinois' Republican state administration in 1956: "I know Illinois is a poor little state. You steal this much out of your public treasury there, don't you, and you never miss it." Roared Douglas, with a biting reference to Fulbright's unbroken silence on the segregation issue in Little Rock...
...shocked members of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, none was more constantly, quiveringly shocked by the merest thought of outside pressure on the Federal Communications Commission than New Jersey's Republican Representative Charles A. Wolverton, 77, veteran of nearly 32 years of House service. "It will be a sorry day in America," cried he, as evidence piled up that applicants for Miami's disputed TV Channel 10 had enlisted Senators to bring pressure on the FCC, "if the feeling of reverence for courts does not exist, and I think it's a sorry day when...
Last week it developed that a good deal depended on whose morality was involved. Republican Wolverton began expounding his ethical ideas to Witness Paul Porter, chairman of the FCC during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, now counsel for a losing applicant for Miami's Channel 10. That was what canny Lawyer Porter had been waiting for. Smiling owlishly, he reached into a briefcase, produced a letter from a Congressman to the FCC requesting special action on a constituent's application for TV Channel 17 in Camden, N.J. Date of letter: March 30, 1953. Sender of letter: Representative Wolverton...
Wrote Columnist Stewart Alsop, an Adlai Stevenson devotee, during the 1952 presidential campaign: "This reporter [recently] remarked to a rising young Connecticut Republican that a good many intelligent people, who would be considered normally Republican, obviously admired Stevenson. 'Sure,' was the reply, 'all the eggheads love Stevenson, but how many eggheads do you think there are?' " Months later, Stew Alsop got around to identifying the man who introduced the word egghead to the modern political vocabulary. The "rising young Connecticut Republican" was Insurance Executive John deKoven Alsop, now 42, youngest brother of Columnists Joseph...
Last week John Alsop decided to present his credentials to the electorate, announced his candidacy for this year's G.O.P. nomination for governor. If he gets past four other Republican hopefuls at a state convention this June, the least-known Alsop brother will come up against incumbent Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff, no egghead, but one of the ablest votegetters in Connecticut...