Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Services Committees, John Foster Dulles was pale and drawn. He had met not only the care ful, concerned sort of questions that the Senate is duty-bound to ask. but also the hectoring and badgering of a small group of Democrats who launched what Vermont's mild-mannered Republican George Aiken called "a concerted effort to destroy you politically and personally...
...your statement that Senator Knowland "has since come a long way." Mr. Knowland, like Senator Dirksen, who, incidentally, recently received a pat on the back from, of all people, the New York Times, has come a long way by compromising most of his principles as a conservative Republican for what he thinks will be political gain...
Died. Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, 59, onetime (1940-49) isolationist Republican Senator from Illinois, who moderated his isolationism after Eisenhower's 1952 victory; of a heart ailment; in Chicago...
Died. Albert. Johnson, 87, longtime (1913-33) Republican Representative from Washington who co-authored (with the late Senator David Aiken Reed) the U.S.'s restrictive 1924 immigration law (superseded in 1952 by the McCarran-Walter Act), which limited all immigration to 2% per year of the foreign-born from each country in the U.S.'s 1890 population, set up a quota system (effective in 1930) to stem the inflow from Southern Europe and Asia; of a heart attack; in American Lake. Wash...
...Republican leaders in the state's General Assembly are preparing for a fight with Democratic Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff over his anti-speeding campaign on Connecticut highways...