Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After watching the staid, wellrehearsed, self-satisfied delegates of the Republican Convention, I can hardly wait to cast my very first vote with that motley crew of rowdy Democrats...
...this, thought former U.S. Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper (now Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Kentucky), would give the Indians a hedge against crop failure and inflation, save their foreign exchange and their funds for industrial development, and generally help to bolster the Indian economy. The agreement assures other free-world countries that they will not be deprived of Indian markets, provides India with enough purchasing power to maintain her normal imports of agricultural commodities from Canada, Denmark and New Zealand. As for the Indians, New Delhi was as cool and silent as Indian officials...
...independent Congressman from Massachusetts' Tenth Congressional District (Boston), active campaigner against votes for women and Prohibition (during which he kept one of the best cellars in Washington) who battled cheerfully and energetically against Roosevelt, child-labor reform, the British, labor unions, segregation, the Russians, the Methodists and Willkie Republicans; at Cramerton, N.C. A Mayflower descendant and isolationist Republican, George Tinkham's popularity in his normally Democratic district was so great that he never bothered to campaign, went big-game hunting instead, named his more repulsive trophies for F.D.R., Cordell Hull, other antagonists...
...made in the U.S. on money, silver-tongued Bryan pounded home a 24-carat political fantasy: the bigger the money supply, the more for everyone. Bryan's particular panacea, a switch from gold to silver as the basis for an expanded currency, was discredited after his defeat by Republican William McKinley. But the easy-v. tight-money controversy, bitterly disputed ever since the founding of the American Colonies, is far from dead. Last week it was livelier than ever. The question: Is money so scarce that it is pinching off the boom and threatening to plunge the U.S. into...
...gold-rimmed glasses. Looking, as one longtime friend remarked recently, like "the boy next door-35 years later," he has turned the Fed, after a ten-year interlude (1941-51) as a puppet of the Treasury, back into an independent and effective custodian of the nation's money. Republican officials sometimes question Democrat Martin's judgment, notably after he boosted the discount rate last spring, at a time when many experts thought that a slump in business was ahead. But no one ever questions his integrity. He is famed in Washington as a man of low pressure...