Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...briefcase brigade that converged on restful Hershey, Pa. (pop. 5,300) one day last week looked like anything but a band of radicals. From six state capitals came six governors and their staffs -Illinois' Republican William Stratton; Pennsylvania's Democrat George Leader, Texas' Democrat Price Daniel, New Hampshire's Republican Lane Dwinell, Kansas' Democrat George Docking, Nebraska's Republican Victor Anderson. From Washington came a high-powered delegation headed by new Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Labor's Jim Mitchell, Health, Education and Welfare's Marion Folsom, and Budget Director Percival Brundage. Together...
...President's political philosophy excluded threats and clubs, it did not rule out "degrees of enthusiasm that I have for the re-election or election of certain people, even though they bear the name Republican ... so I have, I think, my own ways of expressing that degree of enthusiasm...
...Hobsonian choice before these good liberals: whether to support a civil rights bill that had been so weakened by the Senate's Democratic leadership that the South was putting up only token opposition (TIME, Aug. 12) or to fight for the tough bill that the Administration and Republican leadership had backed. Their answer: take the weak bill; it's better than none...
Even so, methodical Walter Kohler was taking no chances, began campaigning last week for the general election Aug. 27. His first decision: to campaign on the same theme, "the record of the Republican Administration in Washington." He was quickly established the favorite over Democratic Primary Winner William Proxmire, 41, who has also run three times for governor and has thrice been beaten (twice by Kohler). Reason: Yaleman Proxmire, who preserves the common touch by staying in $2.50 hotel rooms and writing speeches on a typewriter in the back of his Chevrolet campaign car, is also classed in Wisconsin among...
...with the request-and three other similar pleas since 1955 have only been moderately successful-the Administration threatens mandatory Government controls. Grudgingly, most of the oil importers promised to cut back rather than risk controls. But oilmen will probably suffer less than the U.S. consumer. Charged Vermont's Republican Senator Ralph Flanders: "The quotas will surely result in a price rise in the near future-in fact, that is the purpose of the order...