Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worked on upstate Republican counties to improve their comfortable majorities to help balance and overcome the Democratic majorities of Detroit...
Collaborating with Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, long a power in the Michigan Republican hierarchy, Feikens has managed to repair most of the damage caused by the bitter Taft-Eisenhower fight in 1952, which alienated some of the G.O.P.'s best-heeled backers. Today Feikens is constantly prodding businessmen to get into the campaign more deeply. "Corporate lawyers won't let companies stick their necks out," he complains bitterly. "Most opinion leaders in Michigan communities are Republicans, and when they say that the C.I.O. still controls the state, somebody's falling down on the job pretty badly...
...John Feikens, though hard-pressed, has high hopes. The Republicans not only believe that Eisenhower can carry Michigan's 20 electoral votes again; they have a candidate for governor who already has "Soapy" Williams running scared. The candidate: Detroit's able Mayor Albert Cobo, 63, who, in his quiet, undramatic way, has beaten every effort of the U.A.W. to dislodge him from municipal office. He should be able to cut significantly into Williams' all-important Wayne County margin. But between the cup and the lip, only hard G.O.P. organization work, says Feikens, can prevent a slip like...
Every time Michigan's hard-pressed Republican State Chairman John Feikens hears the Republicans called the rich man's party, he wonders, forlornly, what country and what planet the Democrats are talking about. Feikens' job is to defeat a Democratic ticket next month that is: 1) headed by Michigan's popular four-term Governor G. Mennen Williams, millionaire heir to a soap fortune; 2) seconded by Lieut. Governor Phil Hart, who married an automobile fortune; and 3) backed to the hilt by Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers of America, whose 700,000 Michigan members...
...issues. She is well up on unique valley-farm problems such as irrigation and the astronomical cost of good land, promises to try to bring small business into the area if elected. Last week, when a listener asked for her views on organized labor, Millionairess Jackie set the Republican audience back on its heels. "I went down into the cot ton mills when I was eight," said she firmly. "I saw whole families there. I want to tell you people that the unions have done more for our nation than any other organized group...