Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plate dinner in his honor: "There are four or five million men and women looking for work, and millions more working only part-time . . . the farmers are told to get off the land and join the ranks of the unemployed . . . bankruptcies have never been higher except during the last Republican depression. When a condition arises which causes you to lose your job you can call it a recession or a deflation or a panic. When you don't have anything to wear, anything to eat in the house, and you have some small mouths crying for a place...
Behind the latest party revolt against Ezra Benson lay grim results of a special election in Minnesota to fill the late Congressman August Andresen's First District seat. So rock-ribbed Republican are the First District's twelve rural counties that the district has sent only three Democrats to Congress in Minnesota's 100 years, and none in the last 65. Never in twelve House terms did Andresen win less than 60% of the vote. But in a battle of young unknowns only last week, Democratic-Farmer-Labor Candidate Eugene Foley, 29, almost upset Republican Albert Quie...
...Years of Growth. Through the next 17 years T.R. groped toward power along what one friend called "an eccentric orbit." Shrugging off the wealthy, wellborn friends who warned him that politics was "low," he joined Manhattan's 21st District Republican Club, got elected and re-elected to three rambunctious years in the lower house of the .New York State legislature. In the winter of 1884 T.R.'s wife Alice died in childbirth, and he headed west to the solace of the silent spaces of the North Dakota Territory. "Black care," he said, "rarely sits behind a rider whose...
...born at 28 East aoth Street in Manhattan on Oct. 27, 1858, a calm evening that followed days of strong northeast wind and record tides. His father, Theodore Roosevelt, a merchant-banker, of a Dutch family famous for seven generations in New York philanthropy, was a "Lincoln Republican." His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia-bred secessionist. One of T.R.'s first memories was about how he cheered for the Union and about how he would cheer even louder to reply to his mother's discipline. One night at family prayers Theodore fervently appealed to the Lord...
Died. Dwight Herbert Green, 61, onetime (1941-48) Republican governor of Illinois, early famed as federal prosecutor of Al Capone, later as yes-man to the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick; of lung cancer; in Chicago. Green nominated Thomas E. Dewey for the presidency in 1944, keynoted the 1948 Republican Convention. Trying for an unprecedented third consecutive term, he was defeated by Adlai Stevenson, soon reappeared in the news as the governor who put 51 Illinois newsmen on the state payroll, spent his final years practicing law in Chicago...