Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House scheduled a vote this week on what Speaker Sam Rayburn calls "the Bow thing," a resolution, fostered by Ohio Republican Frank T. Bow, calling upon the Administration to scrap its status-of-forces agreements (TIME, June 17) with foreign countries. Ohio's Bow, who has made a career out of attacking status-of-forces pacts, got his resolution through the House Foreign Affairs Committee by an 18-to-8 vote, and will very likely get it through the full House. But the Senate, asking a dim view of House meddling with the Senate's business of treaties...
...House Republican leadership polled G.O.P. House members, reported that they are overwhelmingly opposed to a major Administration proposal: federal aid for school construction...
...bloc of votes that can be delivered in Southern California, I certainly don't know about it." Mayor Norris Poulson exerts little personal political force, runs the city with a multipartisan 15-man council. An ultraconservative, Poulson ticks along with the Times, but neither the Times nor Republican Chandler winds him up every...
Nevertheless, in state and national politics the Times carries a lot of Republican weight at nomination time. It has been a strong backer in the past of such Republican sons as Governor Goodwin Knight, Senator Bill Knowland and Vice President Richard Nixon, and they well know that it can be a candidate's valued friend in an area that encompasses two-thirds of the statewide vote. For example, in the major fight that is shaping up between Bill Knowland and Dick Nixon for the 1960 presidential nomination, Norman Chandler's quiet word on 1960 may come...
...flock of old friends and old antagonists through the U.S.'s newest national monument, the $21 million Harry S. Truman Library at Independence, Mo. On hand for the library's dedication: ex-President Herbert Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, and durable old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, who passed the time of day with his old colleague, thrust out his snapping-turtle neck to plant a buss on the cheek of proud Bess Truman...