Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which to criticize when he must resort to making vulgar and sneering remarks on the Vice President's dress. Constructive criticism is good for everyone, but Murray Kempton's ill-chosen words are offensive and insulting to every decent-minded American, whether he be Democrat or Republican...
...neatest dismissal of the keynote speech at the Democrat Convention was made from the pulpit by a Jacksonville minister, who said: "Mr. Clement has slain the Republican Party with the jawbone...
...loud note in the editorial chorus was a warning against apathy. "The Republican mood," wrote Columnist Marquis Childs. "is one of supreme conviction of victory, with overtones of the smugness against which President Eisenhower himself warned." Citing the poor TV ratings of both political conventions, the Providence Bulletin thought that apathy was a problem confronting the Democrats as well. "The election will be no shoo-in for the Republicans," editorialized New York's Daily News, advising against a "refined, polite, high-level campaign . . . Nice-Nellyism seldom wins elections in this country." Slapping Adlai Stevenson for his "prissy little...
...staunch Eisenhower man, thought that, despite the forthcoming campaign hullabaloo, "a preponderant number of citizens have already made up their minds how they are going to vote." But the Chicago Tribune's Walter Trohan contended that the last two weeks of the old 1948 campaign saw "certain" Republican victory "transformed to crushing defeat." and noted that the Democrats have "a hard hitting team" this time. The New York Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond thought that Stevenson and Estes Kefauver were off to a fast start, with a big improvement in the Democratic nominee's campaign technique, organization...
Taking a view held by most columnists, Walter Lippmann decided that "the central contest is for the vote of the Democrats and of the independents with Democratic leanings who in 1952 voted for Eisenhower, but did not vote for other Republican candidates." Wrote Lippmann: "Governor Stevenson is trying to win back...