Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats have taken over nearly a dozen state legislatures. Nationwide in January 1957, there were 141 fewer Republican state senators than in January 1953, and 308 fewer G.O.P. state representatives...
...Republican membership in the House has dropped from 221 to 201, in the Senate from...
...Guard conclusion: Ike won despite his Modern Republicanism, not because of it, and the future of the Republican Party lies in the Old Guard brand of conservatism. "I'm convinced that the American mind is a conservative mind," says Arizona's Goldwater, who has suddenly arrived (after his major Senate speech denouncing Eisenhower Republicanism-TIME, April 22) as the Old Guard's most articulate spokesman. "The workingman is the new capitalist. Conservatives are going to win the next election, and the group which wins the 1958 elections will control the 1960 elections...
...real danger in the 1957 Republican split is that the Old Guard's noisy attack makes it seem wider than it is. "Some Republicans," says conservative Columnist David Lawrence, "mistakenly assume the wave of criticism is a tide, and instead of battling it, they swim with its political currents." By taking the necessary political measures, Dwight Eisenhower can place the Old Guard revolt in its proper light. Only then can the Republican Party present to the voters its strongest argument for election: the Eisenhower record as a national leader...
...Party waned under these blows, so did the only real bond between the four center parties-the obvious need for "democratic solidarity" against Communism. Two months ago, convinced that the time had come to look out for its own interests in next year's general election, the tiny Republican Party withdrew its support from the government. The Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, who controls a pivotal 19 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, found himself losing control of his Social Democratic Party to young firebrands who wanted the Social Democrats to pull out of the government and rejoin...