Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gallup poll showed last week that Nixon is favored for the G.O.P. nomination by a whopping 64% of Republican voters, as against 48% last November, and by 40% of independents, against 24% in November. Runner-up among Republicans: California's Senator William Knowland, with 9%. Among independents: Harold Stassen...
...Senate Judiciary Committee, nine out of 15 members, led by Tennessee's Democrat Estes Kefauver and Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen, were co-sponsoring a bipartisan constitutional amendment designed to wrap up last fortnight's historic-but informal-Eisenhower-Nixon agreement that the Vice President becomes Acting President in event of presidential disability (TIME, March 17). But doubts were mounting about whether the amendment would ever get the needed two-thirds majority in the Senate and House. Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was noncommittal. One key reason: the great weight Johnson places on the opinions of his fellow Texan...
...political wagon train led by California's Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight has been beset by more breakdowns in recent months than a three-wheeled buckboard in a spring thaw. First off, Goodie, who wanted badly to run again for governor, was knocked off his seat by Senate Minority Leader Big Bill Knowland, who, with the support of Deadeye Dick Nixon, overran the Knight riders with big guns and big ambitions. Goodie thereupon picked himself up and allowed as how, on second thought, he would just as soon head East for Bill Knowland's seat...
Rounding up Republican support for the primary election was something else again: Knight struggled for weeks against the growing power of San Francisco's G.O.P. Mayor George Christopher, who had his eyes set for the Senate, too. Last week in San Jose, at the showdown before the quasi-official Republican state assembly convention, Goodie took a handy edge toward full endorsement by his party for the primaries: the assembly's fact-finding committee handed him the whip by a vote of 29 to 7; all that remained was support by full vote of the entire assembly...
...said, a case of "bigotry" and "insipid intolerance." The literature included a pamphlet entitled "The ODDyssey of George Christopher," and somehow Christopher took it to be a slur on his Greek ancestry. What it did do was trace Christopher's switches in party registration-from Republican to Progressive to Democratic to Republican-since 1930. Said Christopher, whom the pamphlet labeled "Weathervane George": Goodie Knight directly approved the contents of the pamphlet...