Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University returns of past years have been characterized by a Republican regularity that occasionally transcends national trends and CRIMSON editorial support for other candidates. In 1948, when the CRIMSON was one of President Truman's few vocal journalistic supporters, the College voted heavily for Dewey by 1013 to Truman's 508, Thomas' 151, and Wallace's 133. No poll was conducted by the CRIMSON in 1944, when the paper was a service organ...
...unwanted and unnecessary war in which we would "pay in the currency of blood," the University heeded its spokesman and voted for Willkie 2345 to 1705 for Roosevelt. And ----except for President Wilson's brief interlude of relative Democratic popularity at the University, Harvard has been traditionally as deeply Republican as its newspaper...
...Turner, Iowa farmer, onetime (1931-33) Iowa governor, strong 1952 Ike-man and lifetime Republican, who last month called for the resignation of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, shifted to Stevenson-Kefauver...
...Trevor Gardner, longtime Republican, guided-missiles specialist and onetime (1955-56) Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development, who quit his job in disgust with the slow pace of the missiles program, said he would "vote the straight Democratic ticket." ¶The Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, which endorsed Eisenhower-Nixon in 1952, polled the editors of its 19 papers for 1956 sentiments, got back a unanimous repeat endorsement...
Back at his Pentagon desk for the first time since his prostate operation, jovial Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson sorted through a pile of well-wishers' messages, waved one that especially tickled him: "Dear Sir: I wouldn't vote Republican for less than $100,000 . . . but I like you and hope you get well soon. [Signed] A Democrat." "Engine Charlie" later allowed that he was feeling fine and drew guffaws from reporters by boomeranging a bit of Democratic drollery about the health issue. "I might flippantly say," quipped Wilson, "that I'm qualified...