Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats are united. Since, in time of peace and prosperity, no Democrat would feel called upon to defend a Republican budget, Johnson found it easy to unite his party against it, meanwhile managing to gloss over the deep Democratic splits between Southerners and civil-rights advocates, conservatives and Fair Dealers...
Report in Pocket. Everything came together for Lyndon Johnson on the USIA appropriation. First, USIA Chief Arthur Larson was Ike's proteègè and a pet whipping boy for Old Guard Republicans because he had written a book, A Republican Looks at His Party, and coined what they considered a personally obnoxious phrase, "Modern Republicanism." That was fine with Lyndon; he could use Larson to point up the Republican split. Second, the USIA's shrill critics in press and Congress had managed to spread the impression that USIA was an international boondoggle. Lyndon could therefore whack...
...Jackson Day fund-raising dinner in Omaha, he called on the U.S. to help Communist Poland maintain its independence by granting the Poles' request for $200 million in U.S. agricultural surpluses (TIME, March 25). And in making his point, Democrat Kennedy took on the argument advanced by Senate Republican Leader Bill Knowland that such aid might strengthen the Communist bloc...
...double dares that Bill Knowland likes to fling at Dwight Eisenhower concerns U.S. aid programs to Communist Yugoslavia-foreign aid which, the Senate Republican leader is convinced, "just does not make sense." Last week Ike quietly stepped across Knowland's line: he ordered shipments of military aid to Belgrade, suspended for almost a year, to start up again...
November's returns seemed to fit the theory: though all three states were engulfed by the Eisenhower landslide, three Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate (Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie. Oregon's Douglas McKay and Idaho's Herman Welker) lost out to pro-public-power Democrats...