Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political purposes, e.g., a cool $1,000,000 pledged to the City of Hope Medical Center near Los Angeles, and (according to McClellan committee testimony) about $500,000 to defeat a right-to-work referendum in Washington State last year. With the notable exception of Washington's ex-Republican Governor Arthur Langlie (who began ringing alarms on Beck 20 years ago), most successful Northwestern politicians are beholden to Dave Beck. In 1946 Washington's Democratic Governor Mon Wallgren appointed Beck to the board of regents of the University of Washington. And in 1950, Dave Beck, who had never...
Ohio Democrat Frank Lausche rose to back Douglas, but before day's end Lausche, too, crumbled. Ohio's senior Senator, Republican John Bricker, urging an extra $15 million for harbor improvements in Cleveland, remarked with a straight face that the state's junior Senator favored the amendment. Put on the spot, Lausche reached for his slice of pork. "I would be unfair to my constituents in Ohio," he declared, "if ... I did not concur with my associate Senator...
...Secretary, 25 for the Washington lawyer representing the railroads interested in the rate increase and one to each of the ICC's 13 regional offices. Complaining to the U.S. Senate about the moss-grown ICC's apparent prejudice against the duplicating machine, Delaware's bureaucracy-baiting Republican Senator John Williams last week found the right' word for the 62-copy policy: "Ridiculous...
Lost Perfume. There will be a garden party spiced by the presence of Princess Grace of Monaco in becoming sables; there will be parades and reviews adorned by the uniforms of past French glory worn by staunchly republican soldiers. Beneath Napoleon Bonaparte's monument in the Place Vendome 50 French models will curtsy by torchlight as the royal Rolls passes...
...Eisenhower's brand of Republicanism suits the G.O.P. rank and file just fine. Between "Liberal Republicanism" represented by Ike, Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, and "Conservative Republicanism" represented by the late Robert Taft, William Knowland and Herbert Hoover, the Eisenhower side won a thundering vote of confidence: 74% to 18% among Republican voters, 75% to 11% among Independents...