Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edit and change the records of the hearings-a barefaced attempt that would enable him to square his imminent testimony with later established fact. For a while Hoffa had even seemed to be in charge. He led Michigan's bumbling Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Ives down a primrose path. There was conservative Goldwater blandly agreeing with Teamster Hoffa ("I am very hopeful that your philosophy prevails") on the role of organized labor in the U.S. economy, in a windy discourse that had both men far beyond their...
...committee seems on his way to election next month as the president of the 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which-with strategic control over truck transportation-has enormous economic power in the U.S. The point worried members of the McClellan committee. Asked New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives: "What are you going to do after you are elected, if you are elected? You have consorted with all of these bums and these criminals and everything else throughout your career practically. Are you going to continue to do that if you are elected president...
...campaigner," growled House Republican Leader Joe Martin, "and when I want votes, I go after 'em. Now Sam's an old campaigner too. When he needs votes, he'll go after them too." In jockeying for position on the first U.S. civil rights bill since Reconstruction, Martin and Democrat Sam Rayburn had gone after votes so skillfully that they were deadlocked. Result: late last week, after days of glaring at each other from a distance, the old campaigners were forced to get together on a compromise of a compromise of a compromise...
...Last week the Gallup poll reported that Republican voters list their presidential preferences thus...
...long as republican France ruled Morocco. Paris discouraged the Sultan from calling himself King: it hardly seemed proper for a King to be accountable to a mere President. Last week independent Morocco informed the world that Morocco is henceforth a kingdom and that the proper title for addressing its wealthy ruler is "His Majesty Mohammed V, El Malik [King] of Morocco...