Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was more interested in holding together a Democratic Party than in preserving the extreme rights of the Deep South. But Rearguard Commander Russell chose the intellectual battlefield, laid down the lines of argument, and was never dislodged by the overwhelming manpower mustered by the Republican leadership, by the Democrats' own liberals, by the brigades of Administration lawyers, or even by the President of the U.S. It was one of the notable performances of Senate history...
This time President Eisenhower was proposing the legislation, Republican Senate Leader Knowland was in the forefront, and Vice President Nixon was turning on the heat behind the scenes. Therefore, argued Russell, the Southerners should not try to smother the civil rights bill of 1957 with words; instead, they should first try to amend the bill drastically, and be prepared for its eventual passage, even though they might reserve the right to try a filibuster at the bitter...
...Jersey's Garden State Park). Semiretired, at 57, he decided this year that he would like to serve in a Government post. "I just wanted to do some good," he explained last week. "I didn't ask to be an ambassador." Straightforwardly, Gluck wrote four Republican Senators: New York's Irving Ives and Jacob Javits, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton. All four recommended Gluck, a heavy contributor to Republican campaign chests, to the Eisenhower Administration. Big campaign contributions will not get a Government post, but they may-under the Republicans as well...
After a series of screenings, interviews and FBI checks, Gluck found himself appointed Ambassador to Ceylon. Early in July, he appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and met up disastrously with Arkansas' William Fulbright. The Senator from Arkansas asked Gluck how much he had contributed to the Republican Party in 1956. Gluck admitted to "$20,000 or $30,000." (The record shows $26,500.) Then Fulbright asked how much Gluck contributed in 1952, and Gluck said "around $10,000." By then, even a nearsighted Bald Iggle would have spotted the hatchet in Fulbright's hand...
Front-Runner Kohler, the only campaigner who had declared himself squarely behind Dwight Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism, faced some vociferous barking from the sideshows during the three-week campaign. Among the barkers: eight-term Congressman Alvin O'Konski, 53, whose campaign manager decided to sell O'Konski's blend of domestic New Dealism and mossbacked foreign policy by television and newspaper spreads "just like you sell a new potato salad" (and brought him in third). Another was Gerald D. Lorge, 35, a "fighting marine" who fought a campaign in Joe McCarthy's image, came in sixth...