Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show up this week (Counsel Kennedy promised to prove that Beck had taken at least $270,000 from the Western Teamsters). But although he would soon be smothered by Beck headlines. Frank Brewster would not soon be forgotten. The meaning of his testimony was perhaps best phrased by Republican Committee Member Karl Mundt of South Dakota. Amid all the big moneymaking of the Teamsters' leaders, asked Mundt, where did "John C. Truck Driver-and the C stands for the cash he pays in dues"-come...
...Brief Moment, winner of the $10,000 Longacres Mile at Seattle in 1939. He was appointed to the Washington State Horse Racing Commission by Democratic Governor Clarence D. Martin in 1939, and was named chairman by Democratic Governor Monrad C. Wallgren in 1945. (In between, he was fired by Republican Governor Arthur B. Langlie in 1941, and he was refired by Langlie...
...Harry Flood Byrd, the No. 1 applegrower in the U.S. and the Mr. Economy of the U.S. Senate. For a decade Democrat Byrd has faithfully worked out each year a picked-clean "Byrd budget," always a lot smaller than the one submitted by the President, whether Democrat or Republican. Last week bouncy, apple-cheeked Harry Byrd, 69, unwrapped his fiscal 1958 budget, proposed to pluck a total of $6.5 billion from the $71.8 billion proposed by President Eisenhower. The Byrd cuts: $1.5 billion out of Defense funds, $2 billion (close to 50%) out of foreign aid, $3 billion...
From Pollster George Gallup last week came three seedlings for the spring crop of political speculation. Items: ¶Among Democrats, 66% expect their candidate, whoever he may be, to win the presidency in 1960. Only 54% of Republicans and 29% of Independents expect the next President to be a Republican...
...grandmother losing her rest, the now retired counsel, who termned himself an "overindulgent citizen," lost some sleep of his own. In underworldly dealings in behalf of the paper, he had solicited funds avidly. He quoted some of these dealings; in particular, the approach used toward one well-endowed Republican: "Lippy, I need some money." This technique had kept the publication from insolvency, but only through the efforts of counsel...