Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murray's difficulties with Strauss, ironically, have been similar to those that Republican Strauss had while a member of the AEC during the Truman Administration. Through continual run-ins with David Lilienthal, then AEC Chairman, Strauss won a reputation as the "great dissenter" before he resigned in protest against what he then called Lilienthal's one-man rule...
...Republican Senator William Fife Knowland, who has announced his retirement from the Senate in 1958, is now clearly out to take California's statehouse away from his fellow Republican, Governor Goodwin J. Knight, next year. If this is done, any reasonable scenario calls for Knowland to head straight for the presidential nomination in 1960-and run head-on into an even bigger battle with another ambitious Californian, Vice President Richard Nixon...
...biggest news breaks did not fall to the Times. They fell to its morning rival, the Republican Tribune (circ. 40,733). When Teamster Steward Paul Bradshaw went on trial for the dynamiting in 1955, a tough, aggressive Tribune reporter named J. Harold Brislin interviewed him and wrote a story after his conviction asking: "Will Bradshaw talk?" Four months later, out on bail and embittered by the way his union pals had let him take the rap, Paul Bradshaw decided at last to talk-to Harold Brislin...
...Swinomish, a moniker awarded him by the chief of Washington State's Swinomish Indians. himself as "electrician." Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-20) Franklin D. Roosevelt crossed out his "Episcopalian" church affiliation, did not restore it until the 1924-25 edition. Just before 1940's Republican Convention, Democrat Wendell Willkie prophetically retrieved his form, altered his political affiliation to "Republican...
Died. Ben W. Hooper, 86, onetime (1911-15) Republican governor of Tennessee, who was credited with averting a nationwide railroad strike in 1921 after getting together with railwaymen; of pneumonia ; in Newport, Tenn...