Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking over the Federal Government after two decades of New Deal and Fair Deal, the new Republican Administration expected in January 1953 that businesslike management of the nation's affairs would shrink the swollen federal payroll. But last week Congress' Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures reported that in fiscal 1957 the executive branch's civilian payroll crept up to an alltime peak of $11 billion, more than $1 billion above the 1952 level...
...Happy Homecoming." By such signs last week, Californians knew that Bill Knowland was home and running hard for governor. Flying in from Washington, Knowland made his first appearance at a state fair breakfast in Sacramento, got a mixed greeting from Fellow Republican Goodwin Knight. "I hope you have a happy homecoming," said Governor Knight with a restrained smile, "and I wish you success in all your endeavors, with the one exception I am sure you will understand: your possible candidacy for the office which I now hold...
Before the tour ends, Knowland may announce formally that he is a candidate for governor. Under California's cross-filing law, he would try for both the Republican and the Democratic nominations in next June's primaries. Last week, as he was only beginning his road work, Unannounced Candidate Knowland-in the judgment of both pollsters and pundits-was running ahead of Goodie Knight...
Early Life: Born in Lake Forest, Ill., son of a wealthy physician and Republican, he went to Hill Preparatory School in Pottstown, Pa., where his classmates voted him "biggest grind,'' and to Yale University (.'38), where he got his letter for boxing and football (end), though he had earlier won the unhappy practice-session distinction of dropping ten straight forward passes from Yale's All-America Clint Frank. He got a master's degree (1940) and a liberal bent from Harvard Business School ("I didn't raise my boy to be a Democrat," says...
...business manager for the local A.F.L.'s Union Labor News, bought a half-interest in a printing plant in Waterloo (pop. 1,667). In 1950 he put on a handshaking campaign for the state assembly, ousted a six-term incumbent in the Democratic primary and later beat the Republican candidate by a 2-1 margin. He went on to write a record as a diligent researcher into tax problems, a highroad critic of high-riding Joe McCarthy and a smiling sort who took defeat good-naturedly. The defeats: in 1952 for governor, by Walter Kohler. by 400,000 votes...