Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armed Services. On the other hand, Kennedy had served his apprenticeship on the mediocre Labor and Government Operations Committees, was due under Lyndon Johnson's mandate for a better job. ··· While Democrats last week were at least showing some spirit over committee assignments, Senate Republicans hewed grimly to strict seniority in passing out posts. To the lowly District of Columbia Committee went two capable newcomers, Kentucky's Thruston Morton (who also got Post Office) and New York's Jack Javits (who also got Rules). Faring only slightly better, Kentucky's other Republican, former...
...unequivocal and unexpected opinion. It also showed, when the vote came, a stronger block of liberal votes (55 to 38) than Southern Senators had anticipated. Banking on that liberal strength and on additional recruits drummed off the fence by the Nixon decision, Illinois' Everett Dirksen, the Republican whip, last week introduced the Administration's civil-rights measure. Little different from last year's bill, the Dirksen measure involved guaranteed minority voting rights, a presidential civil-rights commission, a civil-rights division within the Department of Justice...
...Urge to Run Just back from an 8:30 a.m. appointment with the President, Leonard Hall called his Republican National Committee staff together one day last week to read off an announcement: he had decided to resign as national committee chairman. "You're a great crew!" Hall boomed. Called a female voice: "You're a great boss...
...Among the notable banquet guests: CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley and high-styled Barbara Gushing Paley, Long Island Newsday Publisher Alicia Patterson, Broadway Producer Richard Halliday and his musicomedienne wife Mary Martin, retiring G.O.P. National Committee Chairman Leonard W. Hall (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), New York's freshman Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, New York Herald Tribune President-Editor Ogden R. Reid, TV Comic Sid Caesar...
...Wisconsin's retrogressive Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy hove out of political limbo on ABC's TV Press Conference to try a comeback by his usual method, namely, whittling others off at the temples to make himself look like a larger dwarf. On Joe's current "dangerous" list: White House Assistant Sherman Adams, U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Paul Hoffman ("a throwback on the human race"), Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold E. Stassen (a Stevensonite who "goes further" than Adlai), and the President's brother, Milton Eisenhower ("no more a Republican than ... a Hottentot"). Then McCarthy shot...