Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack steamed up, even Vermont's once friendly Republican George Aiken turned his back on Ezra Benson...
...Hagerty. "Let's break the logjam." replied President Eisenhower. "Jim, why don't you go back and grin at them?" Jim Hagerty did just that, and his grin made national headlines. It was confirmed a week later when the President subtly revealed his intentions to visiting Senate Republican Leader Bill Knowland and Knowland was allowed to break the news...
...Within a fortnight after he had begun to campaign openly for the Ohio Republican nomination for governor, ex-Senator George Bender, now an aide in the Department of the Interior, abruptly bowed out. Behind-the-scenes reason: ex-Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, now board chairman of National Steel and the man with a firm grip on Ohio G.O.P. purse-strings, told Bender that the party was reasonablysatisfied with Republican Incumbent C. William O'Neill, could not standa bitter primary fight...
...dreamed up the gas tax-reduction plan all by myself, and later some of my people tried to talk me out of it. I said, 'Nuts to that.' Bureaucrats never think of reducing a tax any more, and this is one I want to reduce." If the Republican-controlled legislature resists his program, it will have to raise $20 million elsewhere-probably by an increase in the sales tax from 2% to 3%, a move which Docking already has promised to veto...
Though his tax program sounds like orthodox Fair Dealing, George Docking has made a political career out of being an offbeat Democrat in Republican Kansas (he regards himself as "a kind of cynic," likes to read Voltaire, Swift, Defoe). The son of a prosperous Kansas banker, Docking sold bonds for a few years after his graduation (A.B., economics) from the University of Kansas in 1925. Eventually he went into the family banking business, took over in 1942 as president of the First National Bank of Lawrence. He played his first political hand in 1952, as money-raiser for Adlai Stevenson...