Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bouncing the bill back to the Hill half an hour after it arrived, the President called House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck of Indiana to insist upon another last-ditch stand such as Halleck staged to sustain the previous veto by one vote (TIME, Sept. 14). That upset victory had won Halleck a bottle of presidential Scotch; another, joked the President, would win a second bottle. Halleck swore to do his all, dutifully got off wires and cables to absentees, cracked the G.O.P. whip. But since their support of the first veto, a critical number of his hard-pressed Republicans...
Conscientious Labor Secretary James Mitchell works hard at trying to be a good Republican shepherd to all U.S. workingmen. With prosperity and union organization, most of his flock live fat in the fold-but he worries over one nagging exception. Wandering up and down the nation's agricultural circuits, from California to Washington, Texas to Michigan, and Florida to New York, more than 500,000 migrant farm workers, following trails of seasonal planting and harvesting, work and live in scrabbling poverty which Mitchell calls a "national disgrace": average earnings in 1957 of $892, hourly wages...
Conscientious Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson strives to be a good Republican shepherd to U.S. farmers, hopes mightily to lead them out from under the oppressive fold of Government regulation, so that they can profit by their own ingenuity and hard work, and not by scandalous subsidy. Last week Ezra Benson's conscience clashed with Jim Mitchell's conscience over migrant labor in one of the few public Cabinet rows of the Eisenhower Administration...
...York Governor Nelson Rockefeller got another chance to say yes, ducked again. Forty top Republicans in New Hampshire (notable exceptions: two Nixonmen: U.S. Senator Styles Bridges and G.O.P. State Chairman T. Borden Walker) urged Rockefeller to run for the 1960 Republican nomination in the primary next March (the nation's first). Replied Rockefeller: "I wish I could give you a definite 'Yes' or 'No!' . . . but in all honesty I feel I cannot...
Married. Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 26, member of the New York investment banking firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., son of onetime (1942-54) New York Governor and twice-defeated Republican Presidential Candidate Tom Dewey; and Ann Reynolds Lawler, 22, daughter of an attorney; in Scarborough...