Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Boy: A Modern Republican...
Walking into his press conference last week, President Eisenhower stepped right into the furor growing out of his budget troubles. "Your Administration program in Congress is running into some stormy weather among Republicans as well as Democrats," said the United Press's Merriman Smith, referring to the biting Senate attack delivered by Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater. "Do you think it is possible that this may be due to some diminution of political power on your part...
Testing trends before next year's congressional elections, Pollster George Gallup last week announced some answers to a Galluping theoretical question: if you had to register today, would it be as a Democrat or Republican? To nobody's surprise, 53% of those questioned went Democratic, including 59% of those not now registered with either party. But to nobody's surprise as well, the G.O.P. had carved extensive inroads since the question last was asked in 1954. At that time Gallup found a 20-million voter spread between parties; in 1957 the difference had dropped to 12.7 million...
...President characterized the McLeod nomination as State Department business, State last week cocked a quizzical eye at an ambassadorial choice made directly by Ike. The nominee, to replace Career Foreign Service Officer Frances E. Willis as Ambassador to Switzerland: Henry J. (for Junior) Taylor, 54, of Charlottesville, Va. Lifelong Republican Taylor is an independently wealthy businessman (Chairman Silicone Paper Co. of America, Inc.) and sometime author (Men in Motion, Men and Power), who switched to journalism on the eve of World War II. During the war he specialized in the "big picture," covered headquarters closely, became friendly with General Eisenhower...
Died. William Grove (Bill) Skelly, 78, founder and board chairman of Skelly Oil Co., a Republican power in Oklahoma, where he dished out federal patronage during the Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Known as "Mr. Tulsa," he donated more than $250,000 to Tulsa University; of a kidney ailment; in Tulsa...