Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate: Senate Republican Leader William Fife Knowland, who would like to spring from California's governorship (over Incumbent Goodwin Knight's dead body) to the White House-but, governorship or no, is available...
...turned away from the President on school construction, which he implicitly accepted as part of the Republican platform. He is reaching for Joe McCarthy's old followers, never misses a good chance to talk about his antiCommunism, argues strongly against aid for such nations as Yugoslavia and Poland (whose differences with the Soviet Union the Administration would like to exploit with foreign...
Pundit Walter Lippmann wondered last week whether it is "good public morals" for the Republican leader of the Senate to oppose the Republican President of the U.S. But Bill Knowland has no known pangs of conscience. He has always made it abundantly clear that his primary obligation is to the Republican Party, not to Ike. Even so, it is the Republican Party that Knowland may in the end hurt most, for, as Conservative Columnist David Lawrence (see PRESS) said last week, "If the leadership of President Eisenhower is forsaken by an influential bloc in his party, the 'modern Republicans...
...from the office of Minnesota's liberal Democratic Governor Orville Freeman last week went a flurry of telegrams urging the state's Democratic members of Congress to support the defense budget of Republican Dwight Eisenhower. "This program," wrote Freeman, "is of utmost importance to insure our safety and to promote the prospects for peace in the U.S. and the world." Governor Freeman was not the only Democratic leader upset by the budget-slashing direction of the 85th Congress under Texas Democrats Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn. In nearly every state outside the South, top Democrats viewed with anguish...
Last week Paschen announced that his worst fears had been confirmed. According to Banker Burke's report, a resounding $444,000 was missing from the county treasury, and, added Republican State's Attorney Benjamin Adamowski, the total might hit "millions" before the investigation ended. The boodling had followed Illinois tradition; e.g., court stenographers got paid $275 for 30 minutes' work (regular fee: $5 an hour); fat checks were made out to people who never existed, were duly endorsed and cashed -by whom...