Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guide to 1958. Later, the President attacked the second most important problem of his new Administration: the growing conservatism among Republicans and the seeming weakening of leadership in Modern Republicanism. Twice, in telephone talks to G.O.P. regional meetings in Omaha and Providence, Ike had taken the-Republican-that-is-big-enough-for-everybody tack. But for the Republicans of ten states gathered in Salt Lake City, he had tough words...
Brownell got into trouble when his efforts to achieve a realistic security program for Government employees were taken up by Republican politicians who lumped security risks (homosexuals, alcoholics, etc.) with loyalty risks in what became known as the Eisenhower "numbers game." He got into even worse trouble when, for one of the few times in his life, he moved so far out of the back room that he found himself on the end of a very long limb. At a Chicago luncheon, Brownell made a speech identifying the Treasury Department's onetime Director of Monetary Research Harry Dexter White...
...Friendly Climate. Lawyer Hiss wildly overstates the climate against him. The fact was that much of official Washington was solidly and politically on the side of Democrat Hiss at the time that Chambers challenged him. President Harry Truman called the hearings before the Republican-controlled House Committee a "red herring"; Secretary of State Dean Acheson declared he would "not turn my back on Alger Hiss...
...summer of 1954 a committee under Utah's Republican Arthur Watkins met to determine whether Joe McCarthy should be censured. This time the hearings were quieter, and Joe had neither public microphone nor TV camera to amplify his techniques. Methodically the committee studied its evidence. In December the U.S. Senate took the rare and unusual step of condemning one of its members (67-22) on two counts: 1) abusing the subcommittee that investigated him in 1951-52, and 2) attacking the Watkins committee in a way that impaired the Senate's integrity and dignity...
Died. Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 48, Republican Senator from Wisconsin since 1947; of acute hepatic failure; in the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...