Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when it came to hammering out its 1957 platform, the convention showed that Republican youth will not be swerved, not even by Ike and Dick. Sniping and griping aplenty, the Young (i.e., under 40) Republicans...
...move touched off five hours of oratorical fireworks, mostly Southern protests, before a packed and tense chamber. Finally the Senate tossed the parliamentary puzzle-Rule 14 or Rule 25?-to Vice President Richard Nixon. Ruled Nixon, following a line laid out by New Jersey's scholarly Republican Clifford Case: since the precedents were unclear, it was up to the Senate to decide by vote whether to refer the bill to committee or place it directly on the calendar...
Southern Democrats, desperate for support against a Republican move to put the House's civil rights bill on the Senate calendar, offered Northern Democrats a swap: vote with us to send the civil rights bill to the Southern-dominated Judiciary Committee, and we'll vote with you on Hells Canyon...
Youth will be served, the saying goes, and indeed it was at the Young Republican National Federation convention in Washington last week. Both the President and Vice President of the U.S. hustled across town to address the conventioneers...
...their part, the 1,500 Young Republicans seemed-at first-to prove the pollsters' finding that Dwight Eisenhower is even more popular with the young ones than with old ones. As Ike looked on with moist eye, the Young Republicans adopted a resolution pledging themselves to "emulate your dedication to service and support your leadership." And they cheered lustily when Richard Nixon rapped "Republicans who snipe and gripe about the Republican Administration...