Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the marble-pillared Senate Caucus Room one day last week strode Republican Jacob K. Javits, the attorney general of New York. He was about to repeat in open session what he had just told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee behind closed doors: the charges that he had knowingly sought Communist help in furthering his career were false. The matter was urgent-both for Jacob Javits and the New York G.O.P. Five days later some 300 Republican committeemen were scheduled to meet in Albany to nominate a candidate for the U.S. Senate, and Javits was the leading contender...
...poor last in last week's primary). Before the committee, Javits faced a basic question: Had he, after his release from the Army in 1945, sought the help of Communists or of the Communist-dominated American Labor Party in his first bid for Congress on the Republican and Liberal Party tickets? Javits' reply: a categorical...
...Would Be Astonished." The hearing lasted 43 minutes and was followed by some confusion. Indiana's Republican U.S. Senator William E. Jenner saw "inconsistencies" in the testimony. Despite Jenner, New York Republican leaders still thought that Javits was their best bet. And if they dumped him, the G.O.P. leaders feared that they would be open to charges of antiSemitism. This could be dangerous in New York City and in other areas where the Jewish vote is substantial. Some Republican leaders worried about the long-distance effect in Philadelphia, where a shift of the Jewish vote against the Republicans might...
...September 1944, a U.S. Army colonel walked into Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey's temporary headquarters in Tulsa, Okla. and told James Hagerty, Dewey's press secretary, that he had to see the Republican candidate on an urgent matter. His mission was so urgent that he would not even tell who had sent him, although he agreed to write a name on a piece of paper and place it in a sealed envelope for Dewey's perusal. When Dewey ripped open the envelope, he read the name of General George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff...
Bushy-bearded Bachelor George Hoiden Tinkham, unreconstructed Republican Congressman from Massachusetts who died last month at 85 after valiantly though unsuccessfully battling child-labor reform, left $2,000,000 to the Judge Baker Child Guidance Center in Boston, the largest single grant ever given to any organization dedicated to child psychology...