Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Split...
Politics. A longtime Democrat and friend of Texas Democratic politicos (including Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn), Anderson backed Ike in 1952, switched his registration to Republican in 1956. In general outlook, Anderson could well serve as a model Eisenhower Republican. George Humphrey, who became an Anderson friend and admirer through Cabinet contacts, recommended him as the best man for the Treasury...
Appointed, soon after South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case told of a $2,500 campaign-contribution offer from a natural-gas lobbyist, a Special Senate Committee worked on and off (mostly off) for 14 months, interviewed 146 witnesses, appealed to Senators, press and public to come forth with specific cases of crooked lobbying. Last week the committee, headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, issued its report, reached one major conclusion: "One of the striking circumstances in the investigations has been the lack of specific complaints, or specific facts or information, concerning attempts to influence any member...
Kasim Gulek, leader of the opposition Republican People's Party, criticized the government for not raising wheat prices even more. The Freedom Party's Feridun Ergin pointed an inflationary moral: "This new price will not satisfy the farmers. In 1951 it took 400 kilos of wheat to buy a good suit of clothes. In 1957 it takes 860." Others predicted that the new wheat price increase would have to be financed by printing 60 million to 70 million pounds of new currency, thus further reducing the value of the Turkish pound, which already could be bought...
...hope so!" Have her feelings mellowed toward Fatso? "Humph! This man Farouk is no good at all!" ∙∙∙ Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger gallantly suggested that separate but equal "gymnastic and natatorial" facilities be installed in the new Senate Office Building for Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Though barred from using the Senate's all-male gym and swimming pool, Mrs. Smith, only female in the Senate, pooh-poohed the grand idea: "There is no justification for such an expense." ∙∙∙ A federal judge hung two contempt-of-Congress raps...