Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Platform Republicans. The White House was pumping fast to fill the vacuum. Ike had attempted to toss responsibility for budget cutting back to Congress with his letter to House Speaker Sam Rayburn proposing minor cuts (TIME, April 29), but that tactic impressed neither Congressmen nor constituents. Now it was time for pressure on all fronts. Rallying point for the attack: the Republican platform...
...there a new political conservatism loose in the land? Few Congressmen-except the Old Guard Republicans-thought so. Said New Jersey's Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen, 41, Eisenhower Republican: "The Congress is restive, frustrated. The interesting thing is to watch what kind of force rushes in to fill this political vacuum...
...discriminating term Modern Republican is gradually being abandoned in favor of a better one: Platform Republican. Rising in a nearly deserted Senate chamber last week, New York's Jacob Javits urged "my colleagues in my party not to abandon either the principles or the programs which have been proven by popular acceptance . . ." In Spokane. Attorney General Herbert Brownell defined the Modern Republican: "One who believes in and pressed for action on the 1956 Republican platform." Vice President Nixon reminded a Washington convention of the budget-whacking U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see BUSINESS) that "the budget is high...
...below). At week's end Ike was preparing a TV speech to the nation to defend his budget. But would the speech be delivered too late to rally popular support for the budget? The new penny-pinching Democrats hoped so, because they were delighted to see the Republicans split on the issue of economy. Favorite Democratic cloakroom joke of the week: "If Ike does go on TV to defend his budget, the Republican Party should demand equal time to answer...
...name of about-to-resign Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), once chairman of National's executive committee. ¶ Kenneth C. Brownell, 54, moved up from president to board chairman and chief executive officer of American Smelting & Refining Co., succeeding Roger W. Straus, 65, Eisenhower Republican and founder of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. A product of Yale and Harvard Business School, Brownell has worked for American Smelting since 1927. Into his job as president moved R. Worth Vaughan, 53. ¶ Robert S. Oelman, 47, executive vice president of the National Cash Register Co. since...