Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play between the President and reconvening Congress, but many a promising political career hangs on a similar play between governors and state legislatures around the U.S. One governor who is having it out with his legislature is George Docking, Democratic governor of one of the most Republican of states-Kansas. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS. The Governor Bids a Slam...
...Liberal Union and the Young Republican Club, Wang's joint sponsors, are trying to secure Sanders Theatre for his appearance...
Control of Light. As the hearing opened, Vermont's Republican Senator Ralph Flanders got up and started to leave the room. "Senator. Senator," cried Johnson, "where are you going?" Replied Flanders: "Oh, I'll be back in 15 seconds, just 15 seconds." (Thinking the subcommittee session was going to be secret, he had shooed a visiting WAVE out of the room and was going to fetch her back.) "But you can't leave us," said Johnson. "This isn't going to take 15 seconds." It took little more than that: the announcement was moments...
Though Massachusetts Republicans applauded young Herter's zeal, there were reservations about his political manners. In announcing early, he stepped on the toes of his father's old friend and political supporter. Republican State Chairman Charles Gibbons, who was about to declare for governor himself. The next problem for young Herter, having put himself out front, was how to get the parade to form behind...
...Press Secretary Jim Hagerty's announcement that President Eisenhower might possibly cancel longstanding plans to speak at a Republican congressional campaign fund-raising dinner in Chicago next week (the fifth anniversary of his first inauguration) started a storm of cries from the G.O.P. National Committee. The Chicago affair was a near sellout with Ike's name on the billboard, and his thought-of cancellation seemed to confirm the suspicions of discouraged Midwest Republicans that Ike does not care much about the party's peril in this year's congressional elections. After the complaints deluged the White...