Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees voted to reword the resolution granting President Eisenhower the authority he wants to act in the Middle East, New Jersey's Republican H. Alexander Smith met Montana's Democrat Mike Mansfield in the offices of the Foreign Relations Committee. "Mike," said Smith, with obvious exasperation, "just what did you accomplish with your amendment...
Display of Discipline. Oddly enough, the killing off of "authorized" came as a relief to Minority Leader William Fife Knowland. Also troubled by the constitutional issue, Republican Knowland had wrestled the pros and cons for days after the resolution was first introduced, had decided, out of loyalty to Ike and the G.O.P., to support the President's wording. Backed up by New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Knowland called committee Republicans to his office, urged them to side with Ike in what had turned into a partisan fight. When it came to voting last week, the Republicans...
...possibility of building a new federal high dam on the Snake River between Oregon and Idaho. The report, as it stood, was a drastic modification of former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay's stand against the celebrated Hell's Canyon federal dam, a stand which some Western Republicans have blamed for the defeat of many a Western Republican candidate last November (including Oregon's candidate for the U.S. Senate Doug McKay...
...unanimous vote by the Democratic Policy Committee in the Senate against sanctions. Sen. Knowland of California, the Republican leader, and other members of his party already have expressed opposition to sanctions...
...TIME, April 23); of a heart attack; in Clarksburg. Publisher Highland battled daylight-saving time, a sewage-disposal project, improvement of schools and playgrounds, radio (by refusing to print even paid program listings), television (by thundering that a proposed coaxial cable could annihilate children, burn homes), kept virtually all Republican news out of the Democratic Exponent, all Democratic news out of the Republican Telegram, and politics of any brand out of the non-partisan Sunday Exponent-Telegram...