Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...store delivery boy, lithographic-supply salesman, bill collector-while going through high school and New York University Law School), it came time for Jack Javits to make his own decision about party affiliation. He remembered how his father had been sent vote-buying by Tammany-and Jack became a Republican. He was a devoted and active follower of that able, highly eccentric Republican Fiorello La Guardia...
Pencils to Literates. By 1946, after his discharge as a lieutenant colonel in the Army's chemical-warfare branch, Jack Javits had made enough of a name as a promising young Republican lawyer to be offered the party's nomination for Congress from Manhattan's 21st District. It was not much of an offer: Tammany Hall had been carrying the 21st by two-to-one margins for 25 years. That made no difference to Jack Javits; he eagerly accepted the offer and flung himself into the campaign, having also picked up the endorsement of the Liberal Party...
...their fight against Communism, for the establishment of the Voice of America and for an unsuccessful bill to outlaw state poll taxes. "We thank God for Javits," exulted a Democratic leader, "because in a tight spot we can almost always count on him for another vote." But some Republican leaders grasped an essential point: a Representative is primarily an ambassador from his district. One time Javits came forward apologetically to explain a maverick vote to G.O.P. Leader Joe Martin. "Don't worry about it," said Martin. "Your job is to represent your district. That's what...
Javits went back: he was re-elected three times, and by 1954 had clearly earned the dubious right to run against Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. for attorney general of New York. Some New York Republican leaders were reluctant to accept Javits because of his liberal record. Finally Tom Dewey arose at a party caucus that lasted until 4 a.m. "Who else," demanded Dewey, "have we got?" Javits not only ran against F.D.R. Jr., but he walloped him by 170,000 votes and was the only Republican on the state ticket to breast the Democratic tide. Manhattan's Javits...
...last week, when Democrat Bob Wagner was still cautiously, methodically planning his campaign (which he will open formally this week), Republican Jack Javits was off and running. On Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Jewish ritual forbade his riding in a car. He therefore set off on foot from the swank, twelve-room Park Avenue apartment where he lives with his strikingly handsome wife Marion and their three children (Joy Deborah, 8, Joshua Moses, 6, and Carla, 1). Exposing his conservatively tailored $200 suit to a driving rain, he walked across a twelve-mile radius on Manhattan...