Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success. Louisiana's Passman, wearing an ice-cream white suit and eating an Eskimo Pie, lounged in the speaker's lobby before going to the floor to attack the Administration for its "propaganda" efforts on behalf of foreign aid. Opposed to Democrat Passman were such longtime Republican economy advocates as Minority Leader Joe Martin and New York's crusty old Representative John Taber. Cried Taber (whom Martin accurately described as "a man who is noted for his pinching of pennies") : "Why do we have the bill? It is because of our own military situation and the world...
...make it crystal clear," said House Republican Leader Joe Martin after a solemn conference with President Eisenhower, "there is no weakening in our position." Swami Martin was talking about the Administration's struggle for a strong civil rights bill, but his crystal ball was cloudy: the Republican position was, in fact, weakening second by second...
...Republican Senators who had gone through the long, bone-tiring fight for a strong bill seemed unwilling to do it again. Minority Leader William Knowland frankly wanted the House to accept the weak bill. New York's Republican Jacob Javits, who has made a political career out of civil rights, was proclaiming: "I want a civil rights bill, not a campaign issue." That left it up to House Republicans-and, finding themselves virtually isolated in the effort for a strong bill, they began giving way despite Leader Martin's pleas to stand fast. Illinois' Leo Allen...
...tour stirred up most editorialists and most vocal politicos. "They have played into the hands of the Kremlin propagandists," said Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey. "They have fallen for a come-on gimmick," added Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield. "My remedy," Vermont's liberal Republican Senator George D. Aiken summed up, "would be a good spanking for every one of them...
...chapel made Kansas' Republican Congressman Errett Scrivner. a minister's son and a Purple Heart veteran of the 35th Division in World War I. acutely unhappy. He called it an "aluminum monstrosity" that "will look like a row of polished tepees upon the side of the mountains," and proposed that the appropriation of $3.000,000 be sharply cut. New Jersey's Democrat Alfred D. Sieminski, a veteran of World War II and the Korean war, disagreed, crying that airmen "fight and die in aluminum planes. They can worship in aluminum if they...