Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which the Justice Department had advertised as a right-to-vote bill. When New Mexico's liberal Democrat Clinton Anderson expressed doubts about Part III, Johnson encouraged Anderson to write down his doubts in a compromising amendment, encouraged him also to confer with Vermont's sturdy liberal Republican George Aiken...
...said the Republican. "It was a combination of things...
...stronger plank was nailed into the Republican platform last fall than a G.O.P. resolution to provide more classrooms for overcrowded U.S. schools. Faced by a 159,000-room shortage last year-and more to come-the Administration proposed to provide the states with $1.3 billion during the next four years in grants distributed on the basis of need. Against strong opposition from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and economy-minded Old Guard Republicans, President Eisenhower himself took charge of the battle to see the measure through Congress...
Congress, for many reasons, was not about to take such initiative. Republican Leo Allen of Illinois voiced one sentiment: "My chief reason for being opposed to the bill is that it will cost about $2.4 billion."' Another sentiment: the integration-suspicious feelings of North Carolina Democrat Graham Barden: "There must be something influencing this drastic bill other than the construction of school buildings.'' New York Republican Stuyvesant Wainwright (who eventually voted against the bill) insisted on adding the kiss of death, i.e., a rider (the Powell amendment of last session) withholding federal funds from segregated schools, thereby...
...Turned down the plea of Old Guard Republican Samuel Wilder King, 70, for renomination, instead chose young (38) Honolulu Ikeman, Lawyer William Francis Quinn, as twelfth territorial governor of Hawaii...