Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai E. Stevenson's proposal to ban further hydrogen bomb tests in the United States emerged as the primary issue in a debate last night between the presidents of the Harvard Young Democratic and Young Republican Clubs...
...result of his Republican concept of the Presidency, Beer claimed, "Eisenhower has failed to use the immense possibilities of his office." Beer pointed to the two years during which McCarthy was the dominant force in American politics--"Eisenhower bears the responsibility," said Beer...
Another example of this Republican philosophy in action cited by Beer was the handling of the Salk vaccine. Here again, according to Beer, the Republicans upheld their concept of the best government being the one which does the least...
This year's gubernatorial contest in Massachusetts is no exception to this tradition of exploiting the body politic, even though this year both opponents are college trained. The issues that divide Democrat Foster Furcolo and Republican Sumner G. Whittier are essentially aged versions of the rallying cries of the last two decades--expanded social welfare legislation and the mismanagement of the other party's years in office. The campaign blueprints are the same too, although the candidates are both relative newcomers to the top level of state politics. The Democrat must pull the heartstrings with his pension plans and labor...
...first elected to the Everett Common Council in 1938. He served in both houses of the General Court, and for a time was the State's youngest senator. Although he is a descendent of both John Greenleaf Whittier and Charles Sumner, he is not considered a "blueblood" by the Republican party regulars. But Whittier nonetheless puts to good use his residence in a three-decker apartment house in Everett, a declining lower-middle class suburb abutting Somerville. Before an urban audience, the campaigner calls himself a "three-decker Republican...