Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no name, said Nixon, for the Republican philosophy. But "whatever it is, it is something new and far better than anything the world has ever seen...
Immediate Republican goals...
...election year 1956, two of the major figures on that tapestry are New York City's Democratic Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner Jr., the only son of Immigrant Bob Wagner, and New York's Republican Attorney General Jacob Koppel Javits, a son of Immigrant Morris Javits. They have been nominated by their parties to run for the place of retiring Democratic Senator Herbert H. Lehman-and the Wagner-Javits pursuit of New York's polyglot vote involves more nuances, more subtleties, more campaigning and more voters than any other of this year's 36 contests for control...
...themselves part of a statewide complex that had reacted against the political and economic power of the city. They discovered that their tax dollars were winding up in the pockets of Tammany's corrupt sachems. Many joined with native sons in one of the nation's great Republican bastions. Upstate New York can-and often does-return Republican pluralities of more than 700,000 (Dwight Eisenhower took the counties outside New York City by more than...
...careers of Bob Wagner, 46, and Jack Javits, 52, the one a Catholic who was born to the political manor and now holds one of the world's biggest-and most cruelly difficult-political jobs; the other a Jew who rose from squalor to become the highest elected Republican official in the state today...