Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that President Eisenhower move sharply to re-emphasize his national leadership, and 2) that the Administration go farther toward explaining the true state of the nation's security to the people, by relaxing the secrecy curbs on reports of missile progress. From his travels afield Nixon, along with Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, reported that the President still had a vast fund of popularity and respect-but that he was not making the most of it. Most of all, Nixon sensed that the rest of the U.S. was ready to join Washington in going to work...
...member of New York District Attorney Tom Dewey's clean-sweeping staff, sometimes presented as many as 40 minor cases a day. After a World War II stint in the Navy he got the job of chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Investigations Subcommittee, then headed by Michigan Republican Homer Ferguson. As a result of his committee work, Army General Benny Meyers was packed off to jail, and so was Five-Percenter John Maragon, in an investigation that unlocked the door to the Truman Administration scandals. He also opened the investigating book on the Commerce Department's William...
...Republican who had nonetheless voted for Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, Rogers went in 1952 to G.O.P. Behind-the-Scenes-Expert Herb Brownell, whom he knew only casually, and volunteered to work for Dwight Eisenhower in the pre-convention campaign. While in Chicago Rogers also caught the eye of Richard Nixon, went along with the vice-presidential candidate on a Western swing, was with him when the news broke that Nixon was the beneficiary of a trust fund put up for him by California admirers. Preparing for his "Checkers" television explanation to the nation, Nixon used Rogers as a sounding board...
...storms that rage about the heads of Washington officials, none matches in intensity and duration the high, fine gale that whistles about Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. Adding to the airy velocity last week was the voice of Nebraska's Republican Congressman A. L. Miller, who called on Benson to resign from the Eisenhower Cabinet for the good of the Republican Party. The demand was not surprising, for Benson has nearly as many hostile Republican as Democratic critics...
...over almost 7,000 municipal jobs, keeps tight rein on a nine-man city council whose makeup is determined not so much by personal ability as by quotas, e.g., five Catholics, three Protestants, one Jew. In twelve years the council has never defeated a Lawrence proposal. His Republican opposition is weak and disorganized; Pittsburgh's top Republican businessmen like Lawrence's record of civic progress, have given precious little support to his opponent in next week's election, former Common Pleas Judge John Drew...