Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disappointed in TIME, Aug. 20 for the low blow it dealt Adlai Stevenson in publishing the foolish picture of the ex-Mrs. Stevenson and printing her even more foolish remarks [concerning The Egghead and /]. Shame on you. And I'm a Republican and expect to vote for Eisenhower...
...marathon started early in July, when Schulman met the governor, his wife and their daughter Carrie Ellen in Seattle. "We talked about everything from Langlie's newly announced keynote-speech assignment at the Republican Convention to his golf handicap," Schulman recalled. At the end the governor had two requests: 1) for the first draft of his keynote speech he wanted a copy of Schulman's notes on his political philosophy, which, Langlie felt, he had just expressed as cogently as he could remember, and 2) could their next meeting be purely social? "On any other basis...
Schulman's last lengthy interview ended at 1 a.m. on the day the governor made the Republican Convention keynote speech. Dressed in pajamas, Langlie looked at Schulman and sighed: "It's hard to believe that TIME comes out only once a week...
While the 1956 attitude is no doubt a factor, the paucity of businessmen active in political affairs runs much deeper than one season's mood. U.S. businessmen, whether Democrats or Republicans, have a deep-seated aversion to political activity. Even in the last presidential campaign an upsurge in political interest on the part of businessmen generally took the form of discreet, behind-the-scenes aid. Few businessmen shrink from political action in cases that directly affect their industry, e.g., for higher tariffs on imported textiles (promised by implication last week in the Democratic platform). But most executives shrink from...
...rightly or wrongly the politicians figure union officials can and do influence votes, while businessmen can't and don't. The businessman who says he's not involved in politics is kidding himself−dangerously." Adds William Harrison Fetridge, vice president of Popular Mechanics and longtime Republican fund-raiser in Chicago: "No others have a greater stake in America's future than our business people. Yet it is my belief that with their 'big-talk-little-do' platform they have abdicated their right to provide leadership in public life...