Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, after voting down cuts proposed by Illinois' left-wing Democrat Paul Douglas and Idaho's right-wing Republican Henry Dworshak, unanimously approved a $34.5 billion defense appropriation-virtually all, except for bookkeeping shifts, that the Administration had asked...
...keeping the tests. Actually the scientists came to see Ike in his capacity of chief of state. And they came under the auspices not only of the AEC's Strauss, but of two leading members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, New York's Republican Congressman W. Sterling Cole and Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who had cottoned on to what the scientists were up to while visiting the Livermore plant...
...resources, thus threaten national security. ¶ Attended, with Mamie, a dedication ceremony opening the new $1,250,000 Islamic Center and Mosque on Massachusetts Avenue (see RELIGION). ¶ Nominated, for a nine-year term as a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Arnold R. Jones, 53, of Manhattan, Kans. Republican Jones, Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget since April 1956, is on leave from Kansas State College, where .Ike's brother Milton (then Kansas State president) hired him as controller in 1945. Jones will give Republicans a majority on the three-man board for the first time...
...thinking in a crouch. It is a posture that seems to hone the intellect. For catchers, once they have mastered the mask, chest pads and other "tools of ignorance," seem to make the grade as big-league managers almost as consistently as big-time businessmen make the team on Republican Cabinets. The bright tradition runs way back to the late Connie Mack and Roger Bresnahan. And from Mr. Mack on through Gabby Street, Mickey Cochrane and Al Lopez, few major-league catchers-turned-manager have matched the swift success of George Robert Tebbetts...
Question of Principle. Connecticut's Republican Senator William A. Purtell went farther. Said he: "If this doctor must exact the last pound of flesh from the practice of his profession," citizens generally should raise a fund to pay the bill. "I am willing," added Purtell, "out of the outrage to my soul, to subscribe the first $50." But, said Dr. Kris, "it's not a question of money. It's a question of principle...